Word: actually
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University team and pitched until the seventh inning, when he was relieved by Felton. The former did creditable work, aside from being a trifle wild, but was given wretched support. Only two of the visitors' runs were earned, the remainder coming from errors by Harvard. Aside from the actual blunders, the University team fielded slowly and seemed to lack the snap which has characterized the work of the last two weeks. Felton pitched good ball until the last inning when, with two out, a single, a three-bagger, and a wild pitch, gave Holy Cross two more runs...
...regards testing fitness to do college work, we believe there is practical value in the suggestion of Professor Thorndike, that the colleges which now allow the College Entrance Board to examine applicants, entrust to it the power to credit schools on the basis of an examination of the actual success in college of candidates prepared and endorsed by that school...
...basis for demanding a substantial improvement in physique before graduation. The progress in physical education in other colleges is summarized apparently from the catalogues of the institutions investigated. We would be interested to know more definitely the effect of these various systems on the students themselves, and of the actual organization of the Physical Education Department at Berkeley or Amherst...
...scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual "from." the sense of strength to be got from sound thinking. And it seems as if the best method of introducing him to these matters is to let him work under a trainer who knows his weaknesses and powers. In short, it is the old question of establishing...
When a business concern finds itself in financial difficulties which would disappear if its actual condition were consistent wish its books, its directors generally put their shoulders to the wheel and bring about a consistency. But when the Harvard University Register shows an actual deficit of a thousand dollars, none but its immediate managers seem to be concerned. The Student Council, which directs its publication, and the Harvard undergraduates, whom we might consider stockholders since they are the beneficients, take no apparent interest in the matter. If the Student Council members would realize their responsibility and if the undergraduates would...