Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whatever we do in the future, let us at least start with a full and correct catalogue of the class. WELLS BLANCHARD '16, Class Secretary...
...first examinations under the new tutorial system in the Department of History, Government and Economics come soon after the recess. There is still too prevalent among undergraduates the false notion that if they pass their sixteen courses with the correct proportion of C's and D's, their degreees will not be denied them. Yet the failure to pass the special examination is as serious as failure to pass the required number of courses...
...must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad's "Within the Tides" means in speaking of the author's "usual superlative style." Apparently the reviewer does not mean, as one might at first think, that Mr. Conrad usually writes in superlatives. Nor is statement of fact always correct. The first article, which makes a plea for a better and more accurate acquaintance with what it calls "Harvard's past," speaks of "five-dollar" fines, it would seem in the seventeenth century, and of University Hall as an eighteenth-century dining-room, though it was not built till early...
...conventionally humorous consideration of that time-honored subject, "Cambridge Weather." There is a conventional undergraduate story, "The Flame," the heroine of which is like "the changing pastel tones" of the "warm amber of a Virginia sunset"--"soft, delicate, and passionless." And there is the usual amount of conventionally correct verse, with one piece, "Escaped," by Mr. W. A. Norris, that is more individual and distinguished than the rest. Even Mr. Cowley's vers libre is conventional according to the standards of "Spoon River...
...first change of note will be the installation of a large electrical scoreboard at next year's meet. This will be operated from the finish line and on it will be flashed the starters in each event, the numbers of the winners, the correct times and other points which would be interesting to the spectators. Heretofore the great difficulty has been for everyone to hear the announcers in the noise and confusion and the new arrangement will supply the spectators and press box with the desired information more accurately and promptly...