Word: classing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Billy Laval, coach of the South Carolina University football team is having his halfbacks literally live with footballs in the hope that the costly fumbles that marred the "Gamecocks" contest with Clemson last week may not occur again. His ball carriers are carrying the ball to class, to meals, and to bed this week, so that they may become thoroughly familiar with its ovoid shape...
...students worthwhile suggestions or criticisms of all or any matters pertaining to their relations with the School. These ideas are passed on to the faculty committee, and, if of reasonable nature acted upon thereby. This Committee is the channel through which constructive criticism of subjects such as courses, class procedure, living conditions, or regulations are carried...
Ever since Professor Rogers referred to Harvard men as giving a snobbish impression, which represents the whole tone of the University, there has been considerable discussion of the topic. When asked to elucidate upon the statements made at the Commencement of the Technology class of 1929, he replied that "Harvard's roots are in the aristocratic past. Once she has found a good thing, she isn't always changing it, and rushing into new things. The elaborate ceremonies around Commencement time are a fair example of this." He advised graduating seniors to "put up a big front, and cultivate snobbery...
While at Harvard the House Plan will directly break up the college into smaller units, each one a representative of at least the three upper classes, at Yale it is the individual class that is to be divided into houses. Past experience in New Haven has demonstrated the advantages of building the class as a strong and active body. A closely knit class at graduation possesses attractions not to be minimized and it seems likely that some of these advantages will be increased by the Yale House Plan...
Placed alongside its Yale brother, the Harvard House Plan displays potential qualities not found in its companion. Built around the class, the Yale idea is beset with the danger of bringing out the narrow, provincial features inherent in any confined social unit. To intensify the unit to this extreme is to cast aside one of the greatest benefits of the plan the university ideal of the intermixture of mutually agreeable men to different stages of intellectual evolution...