Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system. Barnard will continue to develop ninety-five per cent of its students into good, all-round, intelligent human being and citizens, trained intellectually, physically and socially; but it will also avoid allowing the chosen five per cent to become narrow-minded specialists. For, says Dean Gildersleeve, "we will admit into the course only students with such intellectual ability and interests that they can absorb enough knowledge of philosophy and economics, or example, to make them intelligent citizens, without taking definite prescribed courses in these subjects...
...Crimson has received a good many letters of complaint like the one below. It is unfortunate that some undergraduates feel they have been treated unkindly by the H. A. A.; yet even they will admit that nothing can be done now, that admittance to the Stadium will at least give them a chance to join the battle against the Elis; and that with a week's campaign to beat Yale before us, all discussion of the ticket allotment should be withheld. After the game the problem may be tackled with a view to making impossible next year what has apparently...
...separating the sheep from the goats is admirable, but just how to go about it is no easy task. As in the schemes advanced at Princeton last spring, the value of the scholar is recognized at once, for at Dartmouth "the man of exceptional scholastic ability will always be admitted without question". But from here on the problem loses its simplicity. Admit the scholars--a group, alas, none too numerous; what next...
...idealistic in its aims that the other nations will be likely to withdraw from the Conference. Those who have not taken seriously the constant hints from the White House that the Conference will not result in the realization of any Utopian dreams, will be rather rudely forced to admit that there is no talk of reduction and a little of limitation in these proposals...
...luckless youths, who are unable to track the Tiger to his lair will not admit that they are in any way left out of it, or that the cheers which greet each announcement of the score board at the Union or on Soldiers Field are less effective than those which are three hundred miles nearer the scene of action. Indeed, many of those who scoff at "telepathy", which science tells us is the up and coming art of the decade, will today be forced to pin their faith on the power of thought. So if the players in the Palmer...