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...instructor, student, fair discipline, nor education can the present hour examinations be supported. Their only justification is in the cases of "doubtful" Freshmen and more than "doubtful" upperclassmen. In these two cases they might--after sufficient warning--be made bases for action. In any others they serve but to pile up work at University Hall, to swell the budgets of tutoring schools, and fatally to emphasize the mechanical side of education.--"Horidae Scholasticae...
Harvard took three firsts and two seconds, but Tech was able to pile up a high score with two firsts, four seconds, and two extra points from falls. C. H. Bradford, on the winning of whose bout the Crimson victory hinged, has formerly beaten Tryon of Tech at Hemenway in the Harvard-Tech dual meet of February...
...undefeated Freshman team will oppose a Yale team which is not undefeated but which is perfectly capable of repeating the Yale Freshman victory of last year. They have bowed to Taft School, 11 to 9, and they were unable to pile up as heavy a score against the Brown Freshmen as were the Harvard wrestlers, but they are none the less a powerful team. Stearns and Captain Wolfe were members of the Yale '27 football team that humbled the Harvard freshmen last fail, and-the latter has been winning his bouts this year, in the 175-pound class, with amazing...
...sorts of evidence continued to pile up at Committee hearings, about those who had an interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, The Indianapolis Star, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Times and other papers, testified that Secretary Fall had told him of the impending lease a year before it was signed. He also admitted receiving $92,500 for a one-eighth share in the prior...
Just now the American steel business has staged a thoroughly remarkable "come-back." Orders pile up, prices are firm, extra dividends are the order of the day, earnings are increasing. Nevertheless, some American steel leaders are casting anxious eyes towards Europe. Schwab is in Germany. Gary has departed for South America. To students of the industry, aware of bad conditions in the export trade, these facts are not without significance...