Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first day of the Class and Club crew regatta the Junior eight won the interclass championship of the river by a lead of a clear length and one-half over the Sophomore boat, and will, in consequence, meet the winning Yale class shell on the Housatonic two weeks from tomorrow. The first Eliot crew scored an easy victory over Thayer in the race for the Inter-Club championship, in a contest greatly marred by the handicap which the losing eight sustained when one of their seats split in two at the end of the first quarter-mile and left...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...
...becomes increasingly clear each year that scholastic work in the University is not of a nature to arouse the passionate enthusiasm of a majority of the undergraduates. This state of affairs is not peculiar to Harvard,--it is typical of the entire American system of education...
There has been a feeling prevalent in the University that the intricacies of the system of concentration and distribution are not sufficiently clear to Freshmen, and that the average man does not begin to understand them before the end of his Sophomore or the beginning of his Junior year. This feeling has come to a head in recent discussions in the Student Council. From these it appears that many men find that they are taking courses which are of no value to them or even concentrating in fields in which they have no interest. They see their advisers probably...
...earnestly recommend Mr. Lindsey's explanation of the War Risk Insurance difficulty to all members of the University returned and returning, believing that it will help to clear up many of the doubts which still persist on the subject...