Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...order that members may be able better to know what is desired of them, I have written a brief, imaginary life, which is necessarily dull and uninteresting because of its unreality. In general, members are requested to write their genealogy some what in detail, telling all of their relatives that may have been famous, their father's business, mother's maiden name, and the residence of both. Next, stating your birth-place, you are invited to chronicle all precocious traits of childhood; your early school days; place of preparing for college, and all honors received at entrance. Mention the name...
...general objection to this rule is that it deals with a matter of detail, and is principally of concern to the students themselves. Its enforcement might debar bona-fide students in the Law or Medical schools, for instance, from rowing with the crew, playing on baseball, or football teams, and in general indulging in sports which are intended as a recreation. Thus a principle which is well meant, and is intended to prevent objectionable features in athletics, is vicious in its tendencies, and its advantages are outweighed by its objectionable results...
...there is a wide difference," it continues, "between the exercise in each college of a general supervisory power over sports, and the attempt to establish an inter-collegiate code, as a glance at the resolutions themselves will show. They bring out very distinctly, the moment we examine them in detail, the fact that there is so great a dissimilarity, first, in the circumstances of the colleges, and second, in the character of the sports themselves, that any attempt to make up such a code will be attended with enormous if not insuperable difficulties...
...Post then discusses the resolutions in detail. We commend this discussion to any who may be still in doubt as to the resolutions. It concludes: "The fourth resolution provides for a standing committee of the colleges to supervise all contests and approve of all rules and regulations. This, of course, goes vastly further than all the others put together, and if they prove impracticable, it is much more so. It involves the transfer of the whole development of sports from the students to the faculty, and this not to the faculty of one college, but of several, different in circumstances...
...subject. Recently a fresh instance of thoughtfulness on the part of an instructor for the convenience of the men studying with him has been shown by the instructor in Greek 1, who has had printed for the members of his section a pamphlet in which is published in detail the work to be done by the section during the ensuing half-year, together with suggestions as to how to get the most benefit from the course. In addition to this are given the dates on which the one hour examinations will be held, and the subjects on which the section...