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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...track events, while field day badges were presented to the grammar school pupils whose teams won their events. All the regular prizes were awarded by the Cambridge school department. The special medals were given by a number of Cambridge citizens in an endeavor to encourage gymnastics and athletics generally among the school children of Cambridge...
...American Olympic committee yesterday announced the make-up of the American team which will compete in the Olympic games in Stockholm this summer. Two Harvard men were among those chosen, Charles E. Brickley '15, of Everett, and Barton J. Haggard 1G., of Des Moines, Ia.; the former will compete in the hop, step and jump, and the latter has been chosen as a supplementary man in the pole-vault. Brickley prepared at Exeter, where he took a prominent part in track athletics, as well as playing football and baseball. Haggard graduated from Drake University, Iowa...
...intellectually a picked lot, and that undergraduates from private schools have been subject to no selective process whatever? A small proportion of grammar school boys go on to high school. A majority of those who take this step are better equipped intellectually than those who do not. Again, among high school graduates, only a fraction (large or small) go on to college. Here too the little band that progresses includes the intellectually foremost. The result is that those high school graduates who get John Harvard or Harvard College Scholarships are--from the point of view of mental capacity and scholarly...
...Among the visitors at the training quarters on Saturday were F. L. Higginson '00, and J. Richardson '08, former crew captains...
...another column we print a communication concerning the question of examinations. Among its proposals for raising the standard of undergraduate scholarship the Student Council, in its most recent report, suggests that less emphasis be laid upon final examinations and that greater stress be placed upon frequent hour examinations. The Council maintains that the present system, with its unique emphasis on final examinations, puts a premium on irregular work and results in a vast amount of eleventh-hour "cramming" that makes easy the path of the professional tutor. In our editorial of May, 24, to which the writer of the communication...