Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although Cambridge's newest move emphasizes the practical and immediately useful studies, yet it does not detract from the value of a classical training. What has developed for generations the minds of Englishmen is not now discarded. That the greatest stronghold of Greek and Latin should not adjust its requirements until 1918 gives convincing proof of their durability. The demand for men whose training has been devoted entirely to success in business has caused an addition to the college curriculum, not a substitution. Mental training and the need of it remain the same however much the world changes. That which...
...body is supported generally by the students and, still more indispensably, by the authorities of Harvard, the institution will be-operating as an object lesson in this practical economy, even before the public at large has adopted it. The College cannot change the clocks of Cambridge, but it can adjust its academic schedule to conform as nearly as may be possible with the hours of natural heat and sunlight...
...training by the Administration. No one wants or should want to make this a gloomy year. It is right that recreation and the normal social life of the college should continue without being termed frivolities. But if the college life of this year is not to fail sadly to adjust itself to new conditions, one new ingredient must be decidedly introduced into college life, and that is attention to military work and drill. --Brown Herald...
...been reached, but it is expected that some arrangement will be made before the end of the week. If a game, or a series, are staged, the eligibility rules and certain other arrangements that have been adhered to in the past will no doubt be waived in order to adjust the membership of the teams to the conditions at the universities caused by the War. In the first place the one year residence rule would probably not hold. This agreement provides that no student may be a member of a university athletic team unless he has finished at least...
...Harvard, Yale, Princeton triangular debate for this spring. In accordance with the provisions of the agreement covering the triangular intercollegiate debates, the general subject was his year chosen by the University Debating Council, and it has now been submitted to the Yale Debating Association which is empowered to adjust the exact wording. This will be done at a meeting to be held next Thursday...