Word: doned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...towards reclaiming still more of the waste land in the northwest portion than is now in condition for use. As a result of this work, the Athletic Association has decided to install one test drain of a style advocated by Mr. Goodnow and the work on this will be done this summer. This one new drain will be sufficient to make two or three acres of the waste area usable, and these will be filled in as soon as the drain is installed. If the trial proves successful, other similar drains will be installed gradually as the demand requires until...
...less; there is often a tendency among students, as President Wilson has said, to substitute the side-shows for the main tent. We would not lose "Harvard University," which is the definitive reply to the taunt of "Harvard indifference"; but it must be recognized that too little reading is done by most men. And without doubt a solid foundation of good reading is the best thing one can carry away from his four years at College...
This situation could and should be remedied. Short weekly tests on reading, such as are given in elementary courses, could be devised to insure that the reading is actually done. They should be detailed, in order to require that it be done with some care: theses and examinations give ample opportunity to discover the student's grasp of the larger phases. Such tests are given with success in some courses,--even in some of those "primarily for graduates";--they need occupy no more than ten minutes of the lecture hour. And, if more generally adopted, they would add substance...
...accepted in this way, however, only if the course pursued by the student includes certain studies specified by the Boston School Committee. The fields of study in which courses must be taken under this rule are Philosophy, Psychology, Economics, and Education. The work in Education must include practice teaching done in the graduate year...
...team next fall. The "Brown Daily Herald" has outlined the prospects as follows: "Twelve 'B' men will return next fall. These include Captain Andrews, halfback; Gordon, halfback; Fraser, fullback; Murphy, quarterback; Ward, Farnum, Huggening, and Bailey, tackles; McBee and Ormsby, ends; Maxwell, guard; and Staff, centre. The team has done a little spring training and will probably return a week early in the fall." The University-Brown game next fall comes on November 13, one week before the Yale game...