Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...
...amount of time, money, energy and eyesight now wasted by professors in preparing and dictating lectures, by section leaders in conducting large and cumbersome discussion groups, by readers--those most pitiable and degenerate academic parasites--in grading blue books. But even though this dead loss were turned to good account, more instructors and tutors would be necessary. Intimate personal contact between students and faculty is one of the first requisites of any educational institution...
...honour of the University and the Alpha of Massachusetts, a once annual custom, severed five years ago over some meet point, will be revived. In 1924 tradition has it, the game was played in the Esculapian Room of the Harvard Club of Boston, where it was called on account of darkness after nine scoreless innings. With the development of inside baseball among the Harvard erudites during the past five years, it is thought that the Crimson standard-bearers can fashion out a run before the regulation time...
Coach Sullivan's fast boatload of oarsmen will be greatly handicapped by the loss of their stroke man Donough Prince '31, who will be prevented from entering the race on account of an unavoidable engagement. The flying featherweights will be stroked by either Captain F. E. Farnsworth '29 who has been rowing at No. 6 all season, or by T. N. Perkins Jr. '31, No. 2 man. Perkins was in the stroke berth at the first of the season before Prince displaced him, and he is at present the most likely candidate for pacesetter on Saturday...
...thing in particular was hoped for -to obtain pictures of the corona from two points where the eclipse would take place at times a half-hour apart. On this account stations were located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There...