Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many of us have been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses in so high a degree. Many students there...
...Magyars embrace more than half of the total population. All other races, however, having equal political rights, may develop their own characteristics as far as geographical conditions allow. They may use their native tongues in conducting city and country affairs, and, in varying degrees, in the schools. There are three kinds of schools: state, parochial, and denominational. In the state schools Hungarian is the official language, although religious teaching is conducted in the native tongue, and from two to four hours are devoted to it during the week. In the parochial and denominational schools, which constitute an enormous majority...
...days in the week perhaps twenty or twenty-five minutes of scrimmage during the earlier part of the season--in the latter part none whatever--for the rest all preliminaries, signals, talks. The danger of physical injury to the players is too great to allow them to learn the game by playing it. It must be taught them by lecture, not laboratory methods...
...Will you allow me through your columns to call the special attention of all music lovers in the University to the course of lectures, of which the first takes place this afternoon, to be given by Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch on the instrumental music of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as developed by the English, French, Italians, Spanish, and Germans. As the announcement of the first lecture, published elsewhere in this issue, mentions, periods of particular fascination in the history of artistic culture will be treated, which are of special interest to the layman. Such periods are music among...
...University baseball practice, which began yesterday, an innovation was inaugurated. It is the plan this year to allow all men, whether or not on probation, to work with the squad until the April hour examinations. In this way men who are then relieved from probation will not be handicapped by a late start. In addition, this system should prove a strong inducement to baseball players on probation to secure good marks in April...