Word: defection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...events. Whereas, in spite of the injuries to several of the best runners, the University track men scored thirty-two points to an equal number registered by Yale, only eight and two-thirds points out of a possible forty were scored in the field events. Last year the same defect all but lost the meet, and the defeat of the Freshmen at the hands of Yale on Saturday was glaringly due to total inadequacy in the same five events. It is evident that this same situation will continue unameliorated next year unless some radical steps are taken to meet...
...work and putting it into the hands of contractors. The CRIMSON takes especial pleasure in the action of the Corporation; for it has sponsored the project and obtained the final plans which removed the objections threatening to wreck the scheme. The pool, long wanted, will remedy a grave defect in the athletic system. With it in use the dreams of the future gymnasium may rest until time and finances become suited to such an undertaking. The present addition will benefit the swimming team, the Union,--ornamentally and practically,--and numerous members of the University...
...dropped from the Freshman schedule. Instead of the scheduled game the Freshmen played a practice game with the B. A. A. in the Arena which the latter won by the score of 5 to 0. The playing of the 1919 seven showed a lack of effective team-work, a defect which will have to be overcome if the team hopes to make a creditable showing against the strong Andover seven which it meets in the Arena tomorrow...
...remedy this defect that the tutorial system was instituted. The broad field was divided into narrower ones, and tutors were assigned in order that the work of the student in co-ordinating his courses, in shaping his work toward a definite end, might be made easier, and at the same time more complete...
...sound. Naturally, higher education should develop an appreciation of the conveniences of civilization, aesthetic qualities, and a desire for a healthy social life. But if these things are not found in the country it is due more often to a lack of initiative and leadership than to an inherent defect in farm life. By the leadership of one man in a community, a cooperative effort to secure better educational conditions, and a stimulation of organized recreation and social life, would be carried on, that would greatly increase the attractiveness of country life...