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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very largely determined. It is not a prevalent habit at Harvard even where it is possible--as in hour examinations and in shorter tests--and when it does occur, the offender is usually properly discountenanced. Yet there could be a great improvement, both in the honesty of certain undergraduates in the class room and in the feeling of the College at large toward whatever dishonesty there is in tests and examinations and in the writing of theses...
...long as there are proctors in the examination-room there will always be a certain number of morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams...
...what do these six courses cover? They skip superficially over ancient art they deal with certain phases of the Renaissance, and they take up the process of engraving. True, there are two courses on Archaeology given by Dr. Chase which supplement the study of ancient art. But there is absolutely no mention whatever of the German and Dutch schools, of the later French schools, of portraiture or modern painting, of the Preraphaelite or English school with the sole exception of Turner. Indeed, one-half of the subject is dictatorially passed over. Is not this a rather serious neglect...
...word also to the athletes whose training is not so rigorous as to require their presence in Cambridge may not be amiss. Although we do not feel that they should be unnecessarily restricted in the enjoyment of a well-earned vacation, we do believe that they should observe certain general rules regarding sleep and diet. Surely every athlete owes it to his College and to himself to return to Cambridge after the recess in the best physical condition which it is possible to attain by ordinary training...
...familiar fact that in a great many courses too much stress is laid upon theoretical discussions and too little upon practical illustrations. Particularly is this true of courses in economics and related subjects. So often, indeed, is the student taught merely what should happen in a certain artificial set of circumstances that when he tries to fit the theories he has learned to the actual occurrences of the day, he is utterly unable to reconcile...