Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...honestly require a front seat on account of any personal defect, apply by postal card before Feb. 10, to G. D. Appleton, 10 Perkins. No later applications will be considered...
...President declares that the management of sports at Harvard has been for some years "unintelligent, and for that reason unsuccessful." The fundamental defect has been that "coaches of limited experience, who may be either unobservant or obtuse, can override on the spot the advice of the trainer and physicians." "The remedies are the subordination of coaches to an expert in training or to a medical adviser, and the general adoption of more reasonable views about al training...
...institution as large as Harvard who will be dishonorable enough to cheat or hand in work not their own. But these offences against truthfulness and honor are not confined to a few, and the undergraduate sentiment concerning them is not sufficiently condemnatory. Why this vital defect in the college morals should exist is hard to decide; but we believe the men who represent another's work as their own, fall into the evil through carelessness and thoughtlessness of its dishonorable character, if a man can commit an act of deliberate dishonesty through thoughtlessness...
...leads with 307 students, New Jersey is next with 249 and New York third with 165. A number of new courses have been added and in the faculty there are several changes and additions. The entrance requirements in English are greatly increased in an effort to remedy the general defect in thit branch...
After a thorough investigation a report was completed and published in the spring of 1894. No other educational document published in this country has been more widely read or has caused more discussion. The committee found that the defect in the secondary school lay in the course of study rather than in the teaching, and was caused by continuing the study of elementary subjects too long...