Word: badness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of 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...
...banks, and insurance companies. On all of these men will rest the reputation which Harvard will have among thousands of people for years to come. Some of them will go into homes where the name of Harvard has never been mentioned. Some will have an opportunity to change a bad reputation to a good one. What the College may demand of them all is that they shall in none of their dealings with employers or customers cast discredit on Harvard. We all know with what readiness we judge our contemporary colleges by the single representatives from them...
...University Glee Club will give a Yard concert in front of Holworthy this evening at 7.30 o'clock. In case of bad weather, it will be postponed until some later date...
Thiry-five players, representing six different schools, participated in the tournament. The scores of the schools in the team championship were as follows: Exeter, 15; St. Mark's, 7; Lowell, 4; Rogers, 3; Newton High, 3; Country Day School, 0. The bad weather conditions handicapped the contestants, but the play was nevertheless fast...
...fact, allowed extra seats for their wives. But as for Seniors, there is no way of meeting the case except by reducing the number of tickets allotted to oarsmen and by depriving certain other undergraduates and graduates of their seats altogether. Such a remedy seems to us as bad as the complaint. One possible solution is offered by the privately operated excursion boats carrying upwards of 2000 people...