Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this respect the college might even go a step further in imitation of the ancient Greeks, and see that every man who desires to enter an athletic contest spends at least three months in preparatory training. By so doing many of the heart strains and other physical disorders found in the recent draft examinations would be avoided...
...friendly rivalry between colleges and un- iversities," said Professor Greenough in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In the past too much emphasis has been placed on University teams, with too much newspaper talk and heroworship. Athletics should be made general so that the man who cannot make even a class team will be encouraged to take exercise. With these men as a foundation it would be advisable to have a pyramid of teams culminating in those which should represent the University in intercollegiate contests. If College athletics are not made accessible to every student I agree with Dean Briggs...
...University of Wisconsin, in response to a great demand among the students, has just completed plans for the erection of a Union. This draws our attention to the fact that our own Union is not in as flourishing circumstances as it might be. Even before the war the expenses were becoming harder and harder to meet. The membership had declined. It was proposed to make membership compulsory among the students in order to meet the annually increasing deficit, but the plan was never carried out. The war and the Radio School coming at just this period, it was found convenient...
...article recently published in the "Boston Globe," the Faculty of the University was rather bitterly criticized for their alleged refusal to give academic credit to those men who entered the service. The boys "skipped their classes without even saying good-bye to their professors" and now the wicked Faculty refuses to grant them recognition of the education gained in the "world of men." Such action is "unthinkable," according to the "Globe...
...studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias to enter into the teaching of the story of the past; it is compelling the student to view the events of history through the colored glass of the instructor's personal feelings and prejudices rather than being acquainted with the facts as they...