Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholastic standard; to a lesser degree on its athletic prowess. A college is mistaken if it assumes that the glamor of gridiron victories will offset a mediocre scholastic standard. Intercollegiate athletics, however, are of such importance that, if it is an error to carry them to excess. It is also a fault to burden them unnecessarily with overfine restrictions. The rule, which makes ineligible for one year students transferring from some other institution, is just and fair, for it prevents men, who may not be able to pass the entrance requirements, from coming to Harvard merely to gain fame...
...proposed stadium will seat five thousand and wooden stands can be erected providing for excess crowds. At the entrance to the field a memorial arch will be built, commemorating the ninety Dartmouth men killed...
...cent return for the railroads as a whole in each large group they will yield more than the stipulated rate of return for the strong roads and less than that for the weak roads. The strong roads are to divide with the Government the excess over 6 per cent on their value; the weak roads will have no excess to divide--in fact many of them will earn but a small part of 6 per cent. There is, therefore, every incentive to operate at high efficiency so that in the case of the strong roads the excess, even though part...
With this increase the tuition fee will equal approximately 50 percent of the annual cost per man of operation of the college, an amount somewhat in excess...
...truth of the matter is not that we are on the wrong track in education, but that we have gone forward too hastily. Mr. Butler's protest is valid not against the principle but against its excess. Elsewhere on this page we print an account of a new system of examinations at Harvard designed to equip the student for the fullest use of his faculties in the interpretation of what he has learned. This is not a reaction from the generous elective system introduced at Harvard twenty years ago. It is intended rather as a corrective to that system...