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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...race for the Yale Challenge Cup, Huntington School beat Noble and Greenough by one length. This was a particularly close and exciting event, the lead see-sawing back and forth until the end, with Noble's ahead for more than half of the contest. The last event on the schedule was a race between Tufts and the M. I. T. freshmen, which the latter won by four lengths...
Felton pitched an air-tight game for the University, and gave promise of great value in the important games ahead. Although he was a little wild in the opening innings, he steadied down towards the end of the game, and Amherst was almost helpless...
...requirement of a general examination at the end of the undergraduate course in the field to which the student is supposed to have given special attention ought to go far toward making the college course what it is often quite mistakenly said to be, a preparation for life. It ought to enable the University to affirm, with greater confidence than has hitherto been possible, that its graduate known his general subject, and is also, in respect of it, an educated person. It ought to improve the quality and widen the range of instruction, if the point of view...
...close race over the mile and seven-eight's course on the Charles yesterday afternoon, the second Freshman crew defeated the first M. I. T. freshmen by one and half lengths. Up to the first mile, the race was very even, but towards the end, the 1922 boat established its lead which the Tech oarsmen were unable to overcome...
...scheme of electives reminds us of the approach of the time for choosing studies for next year, and brings to mind one of the tactical feelings of the elective system. Very many of us have found that the liberty given in this direction fails of accomplishing its end, and that from the want of knowledge of the nature of some of the studies offered we are but little better off than we should be if the studies were decided for us. The fault does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information...