Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Basketball at the University gets into full swing this afternoon when candidates report to Coach Wachter at the Hemenway Gymnasium at three o'clock for the first formal workout of the season. For the first week or two, practice will consist mainly in the drill of the fundamentals of the game. No scrimmages will be held for some time and at present passing work and shooting will be stressed...
...remained, however, for Mr. Elmer A. Sperry to so master the riddle of the spinning top that he could harness the earth till it should compell his gyroscope to swing into the meridian no matter in what direction it may have been initially, and thus make possible a non-magnetic compass. Such an instrument removes all uncertainly about the location of the north magnetic pole of the earth since it indicates always true north and depends upon the rotation of the earth as an astronomical body for its directive force. This is perhaps the latest vindication of the fact that...
...practice, and the huge crowds attending the late season games have encroached on the old-time aim of college sport, which was the development of the undergraduate. The pendulum seems to have swung about as far that way as it will go. It is to be hoped that the swing the other way is to come in the near future...
America, influenced partly by the inevitable swing of the pendulum, partly by reaction against President Willson's system of personal government, and partly by a suspicion of the European connections into which the present Administration has carried her, is reverting resolutely to her habitual conservatism. That is the salient fact to be reckoned with for the next two and probably four years. How, it is necessary to ask, will that affect America's relations with the rest of the world and with this country in particular...
...Democrats continue to capitalize what they term the "independent swing to Cox." Wide circulation is being given to the views of Dr. Chales W. Eliot, president emeritus of the University, who is advertised by the Democrats as an "independent supporter of Cox." Dr. Eliot spoiled this play somewhat the other night at the Underwood dinner by admitting that he is pretty regularly a Democrat. The Democrats had also been pinning hopes on an eleventh hour declaration by Dr. Eliot's successor, President Lowell, in favor of Cox, but that does not seem probable...