Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...person who does not understand the amount of detail involved in the conduct of twenty or more teams taking part in intercollegiate athletics is astonished to find that the expenses in connection with athletics at Harvard during the year 1909-10 were $127,945, or about $425 a day for ten months of the year. The charge of extravagance naturally follows such an exhibit of figures. Doubtless there is a considerable amount of money spent unnecessarily each year. A steady effort is being made, however, to curtail foolish expenditures and to spend the income of the association where it will...
...Credentials -- The candidate must present to a new committee on admission an official statement from his high school showing in detail, first, the subjects he has studied and the ground covered in each second, the amount of time he has given to each subject; third, the quality of his work in each subject...
...would seem that the problem may be solved by making admission requirements more general. Questions of detail involving mere abstract facts, which with sufficient study a scholar even of low standard may acquire, should appear much less frequently on the papers. Their place should be taken by questions requiring a good general knowledge of a subject and demanding a certain amount of careful and accurate thought. This might prove a sure and speedy way of raising the standard of scholarship...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "Horatian Urbanity in the Works and Days of Hesiod." Professor E. K. Rand.--"A Detail of Mithras Worship." Mr. D. N. Robinson.--"The Outline of a Modern Greek Epic." Mr. A. E. Phoutrides. Harvard...
...game in Detail...