Word: ending
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class of 1919 will have no other this year. It will be a smoker with all the trimmings that please some and bore others; rows of long wooden tables; plates of cheese and pretzels, movies in which Douglas Fairbanks will climb all ever the wrinkled sheet hung at the end of the Living Room, and the inevitable speeches. It is altogether fitting that the Seniors should celebrate in the manner of their pre-war Freshman and Sophomore years the last evening before they conceal their physical eccentricities and their precarious relations with the College Office beneath caps and gowns...
...newspapers, and on precisely the same ground: that they must see to it that the truth shall be printed. But these socialistic reformers are just as certain that this truth must be read through their colored spectacles as were the governments which have come to such an inglorious end...
...unfortunate but an accepted fact that marks have proved the most successful incentive to work. Under the existing system, tutors hand in at the end of the year to the heads of the division their opinions of the ability and work of the men under their supervision. But this annual marking is too intangible and far distant a threat to be of real value in urging the student to look upon his conferences as important...
...Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied per se in after life--this is left...
...position of Assistant Director of the American University Union in Paris, which post he has since occupied. At the time of his departure for France, the duration of his leave of absence had not been definitely determined, but it was thought probable that he would return by the end of the summer. Whether the Dean will be here at the beginning of the second term in February to resume his duties at the University, the College Office is not as yet able...