Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard has fully justified its existence during its brief history of four years. It begin as a private undertaking with the Class of 1913 and was officially carried on by 1914. Each year has seen an advance in size and quality and this year's edition is bigger and better than any of its predecessors...
...ranked highest at entrance, some were in the lowest fifth of the class by Junior year. "There is," says Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students who did yet worse in their entrance examinations, and so were shut out, a fairly large percentage would have done better in college than a third of those who were admitted." It is a "moral attrocity," he believes, to depend upon such a fallible system...
...mediaeval university and its modern successor is profound. Doubtless, trustees and faculties could change this condition if they wished. Entrance requirements and requirements after entrance could be made impossible for any but genuine scholars. But it is unlikely that trustees and faculties are going to do this. For better or for worse, the American institution of learning is a good deal more--or a good deal less--than a place to learn, in the scholastic sense. The most determined university president will perforce be satisfied to get a fair proportion of his populace, quality as well as quantity considered, into...
...call attention to the short organ recitals which Dr. Davison is giving each morning in the Chapel; just after the morning service. Men who are taking examinations can spend the ten or fifteen minutes between the close of the service and the beginning of the examinations in no better way than in hearing this music. If we can take the word of those who have tried this means of preparation we are sure that it leaves the mind far clearer and more capable of its best efforts than the eleventh hour cramming which usually fills the few minutes between breakfast...
...closeness of the game was more or less of a surprise, as Yale's record this season has been much better than that of Princeton. The second game of the series will be played at Princeton next Saturday...