Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sport of swimming has been maintained with difficulty in the athletic curriculum of the University because of inadequate facilities. A home swimming pool has long been needed. Swimming was entirely abolished as a sport in the University in 1910, but a team was again organized when the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank was constructed...
...schools by the alumni of various colleges. Dean H. McClenahan, of Princeton, spoke on athletic standards and approved of the faculty's controlling all athletics. Professor R. N. Corwin, of Yale, discussed college ideals and athletics and expressed the belief that athletics should be more closely associated with intra-curriculum aims...
...deficient in their literary expression to take an extra course in English is a doubtful remedy. English A should give a man the requisite fundamental knowledge which a further, uninteresting, dry course would not augment. The objection to English is not in the English courses but in other curriculum departments. The remedy is not in forcing more English down the throats of delinquents, but in making them utilize what they have. Assuming that students who have passed English A have the knowledge necessary to write clearly, it is the desire and necessity of using this knowledge which must be encouraged...
Second, the new Council will take charge of holding the undergraduate elections, and will make the arrangements for extra-curriculum events, such as the Freshman reception, which duties have been discharged in the past by the Yale Daily News...
...former editor, Theodore Roosevelt '80, writes the leading article of the current Advocate. In vigorous language he urges that Harvard "establish as part of its curriculum an efficient system of thorough military training." A minority of zealous pacificists last year were able, mainly through the CRIMSON to spread the impression, to use Mr. Roosevelt's phrase, that Harvard men were taking the lead the wrong way in having "anything to do with the absurd and mischievous professional-pacificist or peace-at-any-price movements." The CRIMSON'S policy has evidently been reversed, how ever, and the quick organization...