Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offset, in a measure, the litter caused by basket parties on the lawns. Recently the city leased the place to a $500,000 private corporation which undertook to make it a "place for the fashionable and fastidious." The rental was $8,500 per year. The corporation sold the hat-check privilege alone for $12,000. Joseph Urban was hired to decorate the interior in rhythmic maroons and greens. A black glass ceiling was placed over the ballroom. A "continental atmosphere" was evoked. Last week the Casino was opened to 600 special guests carefully culled from the Social Register by Anthony...
...large proportion of Freshmen in these courses and the wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade. The arguments in favor of laying great stress on the weekly or monthly marks constitute in reality an indictment of examinations as an accurate test of knowledge. The good student may have an off day mentally or physically or may be so afflicted with examination nervousness as to fall far short...
...their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...
There would be no better way for Harvard men to form an opinion on the merits of the House Plan than to check off the proposed details of operation with the avowed principles behind the Plan. To do this facts are necessary. What the relations of the Master and undergraduates will be, how the residents will be chosen, whether or not Freshmen will be included, and a host of similar questions all must be answered before a definite conception of the Plan can be formed to match the physical progress being made down by the Charles...
Robert Gilmor '31 will probably be on the mound for the Harvard aggregation and the outcome of the game depends largely on his ability to check the slugging schoolboy nine...