Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team will be in force this year. Where-as, in the past, teams have chosen for each debate, this year three groups will be chosen at the beginning of the half year, which will comprise the University squad. They will oppose each other before each contest to determine the best team for that particular debate. Any person not placed on one of the three teams will be advised to take further speaking training, and will be given an opportunity to move up be a series of challenge debated with other members of the teams. In this way it is hoped...
...Union could appreciably increase the opportunity for a large number of students to widen their acquaintance with the best teachers of Harvard, even if this acquaintance be of necessity limited only to the fleeting contact between a lecturer and his listeners. It is to be hoped that tonight's speaker, Dr. Reisner, professor of Egyptology, will be but one of many Harvard professors to be heard in the Union's Living Room this year and in years to come...
...marking every question individually as well as each book as a whole. The results were carefully tabulated and compared., and a summary of conclusions and recommendations published in volume three of the "Harvard Studies in Education." As revealed by that study, the investigators concluded that college marking is at best far too much a matter of chance, and that every care is needed to make it accurate. It showed, however, it is the difference in examiners which makes the attainment of academic credit a gamble for the student...
...unfortunate part of the whole situation is that now the House Plan is going to be tried out, and nothing that anybody says this year will stop things. Last Friday the inquisitor did his best to point this out and put people at case, or at least to prevent a lot of wasted effort, but to no avail, evidently. They are still harping on the House Plan and the failure of the News to represent undergraduate opinion when there wasn't any to represent. Well, it doesn't hurt anybody and it may do some good in waking the place...
...enormously good thing merely to exist. You must take whatever comes your way and make the best use of it possible...