Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...facts. The Harvard swimming team has no tank to practise in, and no material but those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...
...Wells '97, Secretary for Appointments, will speak, under the auspices of the Education Club, in the Common Room of Perkins, this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "The Appointments Office: Its Work in Placing Teachers." The address will be open to members of the University...
...autumn, it will retain its own identity; but will increase the efficiency of our own Divinity School, by co-operating with it to prevent needless competition and duplication of courses. The two schools will be mutually helpful, contributing students to each other, and thereby virtually becoming fused in a common aim, Harvard has made provision for receiving students in the Andover Seminary into full membership in the University, and the Seminary will have full use of our great libraries and museums. It is but another instance of Harvard's loyalty to the cause of universal education...
...EDUCATION CLUB. "The Appointments Office: Its Work in Placing Teachers," Mr. Edgar H. Wells, Secretary for Appointments. Common Room, Perkins Hall...
...public school and not the home that has the greatest influence upon education. The non-success in teaching is due to the failure of the teacher to get into communication with the parents. If the ideas of the parents and the teachers do not converge to a common end, good results cannot be secured from public schools. Moreover, since the greater proportion of the boys who leave school on completing the elementary grades, find themselves inadequately fitted for earning wages, the training in the public schools should be supplemented by night schools and trade schools, where the education will...