Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...study, which in many institutions is wholly or in part determined and prescribed by their officers, is here worked out by each individual student in accordance with his tastes and aims. This almost unqualified freedom of choice, which is peculiarly Harvard's has often been criticised by those who doubt the ability of the average undergraduate to think intelligently for himself. They can no doubt, cite actual cases of misdirected energies or of too widely distributed plans of study, but these will be the exceptions. Few men who are old enough to pass the requirements for admission to Harvard College...
...that advisors are appointed to assist them in planning their schedules. They should remember, however, that the adviser is intended primarily to help them decide, not to decide for them. A Freshman should have a reasonably clear idea of what he wishes to do, and if he is in doubt about a course which is not within the adviser's department, he should go to one of the men connected with it. By following such a plan, he will learn to realize the true value of the elective system, and prove himself worthy of the freedom it allows...
...book review in the number speaks patronizingly of a novel as no doubt very good of its kind, brisk, exciting, entertaining. These excellent qualities are not found in the stories of the Monthly, Mr. Adams's "Beyond the Gate," Mr. Bellows's "Brother and Sister," and Mr. Carbs's "Reveilles." Mr. Moon's "In the Track of the Turk" shows experience in an out-of-the-way corner of the world; it could have been made more tense...
...interested in the welfare of our athletics. Whether or not the Deans will find their new duties too irksome when combined with the many other details of administration thrust upon them, the experience of next year will show. We admire their good intentions in accepting the appointment; but we doubt whether they will have the time at their disposal to make the most efficient members of an active committee. There should be a number of important changes in the management of athletics next year and the new committee should have the inclination and good judgment to make them...
...strong a claim to the premier position in college baseball as any nine. They have won two victories over Pennsylvania, 3-1 and 5-1, and have defeated Fordham's strong team, 7-6, Lehigh, 17-0, and Amherst, 16-3. Deshon has proved beyond a doubt that he has no peer in college baseball today, and it is largely due to his masterly pitching that Cornell has such an enviable record...