Word: small
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play the more for the fact that...
Since the war the government has made every encouragement toward equitation instruction for the mounted branches of the service that have R. O. T. C. Units where facilities are available for caring for mounts; going eventually to the extent of supplying the small type horse suitable for polo. Yale has acquired approximately twenty of these mounts somewhat superior to the type available at the government purchase price. The additional funds going toward the purchase of the better type came mainly through the good efforts of an outside generous enthusiast...
...latter class are Jay Camp '15, who was not good enough for the Exeter track team, but plugged away at Harvard and in his Senior year tied for first place in the high jump in the Intercollegiate meet. Robert St.B. Boyd '14 was supposed to be too small to make a team at school, but he came to Harvard and proved that even with a slight body he could win the Intercollegiate cross-country run in 1913. Kenneth Fuller '16 was the first man in his class to get a track letter, yet he never made a school team. These...
...basketball differs from other sports. Baseball is baseball whether it be played at Kalamazoo, Mich., Cuba, Japan, the Philippines or any other part of the world. There is only one set of rules governing the game and the elementary rules of baseball are generally well known by the small boy before he gets very far into arithmetic, grammar or geography. And, I might say, the same conditions surround football, track athletics, tennis, rowing, golf and practically every other sport. But basketball is different, and it is the lack of uniformity in the rules that has prevented the sport from growing...
...deciding that it will not play Boston College in football in the fall of 1921, Yale has given up its policy of meeting a team from a small college until it wins a victory. This omission of Boston College from the schedule was necessitated on account of the need of developing a consistent schedule...