Word: seconde
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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What college students of today may choose to study, and what they and their parents regard as the most important subjects in the college curriculum, are revealed by the fact that more men at the College are specializing in English Literature than in any other subject, while Economics stands second in popularity and Chemistry third...
Comparison of these figures with those of recent years shows one striking change, which is easily explained. In 1914 Economics led in popularity, with English second. In that year there were approximately four men specializing in Economics for every three in English. Since then English has taken the lead. The reason is that beginning with the class of 1917, men specializing in the division of History, Government and Economics have been obliged to take a general examination. This requirement has been confined to this one division, and has had the effect of discouraging many men from concentrating in Economics. These...
...Yard Dash--First heat won by C. B. S. Evans '22; second, L. Flax '23; time, 10.4. Second heat won by H. W. Davis '24; second, D. Stearns '22; time, 10.4. Third heat won by R. D. Howard '23; second, A. Simmons '24; time, 10.3. Final heat won by R. D. Howard '23; second, A. Simmons '24; third, H. W. Davis '24; time, 10.3. Handicaps were: Howard, scratch; Simmons, 3 yards; Davis, 2 yards...
...theme is the racing of horses in a "fashionable hunting community near New York," featuring a third act filled with field glasses and people; the customary "They're off!!" and a tremendously exciting, though second-hand, steeplechase. That is the old theme and the new wrinkle is, of course, William Collier...
...haunts of the idlest rich, busied only by bolshevist butlers and refractory race-horses offers the happiest medium for the Collierisms that kept the audience in one continuous chuckle from his first appearance to his last, and brought forth five minutes of sustained applause at the end of the second...