Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should be possible in each department to eliminate in the introductory courses persons unfitted for work in that field. Yet the large number of men who fail in moderately advanced courses which are essential to further progress in their respective concentration groups shows that this is not being done. It is far better to advise students who are hopelessly in arrears to drop courses than to have them waste their time in bootless effort. If instruction can not be improved or standards lowered; if in order to maintain the reputation of the University recourse must be had to drastic measures...
...scheme of Government ownership, so much discussed and prophesied today, Professor Cunningham is absolutely opposed. In explaining his stand he said, "There is at present, on the part of employees and of a growing minority of the public who fail to appreciate the ultimately unfavorable effects, a strong demand for government ownership. It is to be hoped that such an economic calamity may be avoided. The weight of public opinion is in favor of leaving to private initiative those things that can be done better by individuals than by the Government. A continuation of Government operation was overwhelmingly opposed...
...introduction to their profession but also a practical apprenticeship in the work of instruction. It would be difficult, however, to justify the establishment of a Graduate School for the sole purpose of perfecting teachers in craftsmanship. Not that this is unimportant; indeed it is highly desirable, and many teachers fail or are less effective than they might be for the lack of a properly supervised apprenticeship: but even the practical training of a novice, to say nothing of more advanced study on the part of experienced workers, can not be well conducted apart from the much broader and more difficult...
...final speaker Coach R. T. Fisher '12 declared that the schedule for next fail was one of the most difficult ever arranged and declared that "we've got about the hardest job a team ever had to beat Princeton next fall". "In order to win that game and win from Yale we have to begin right away," he continued. He closed his speech with a plea for determined work at spring practice, in order that the coaches might know better next fall who to retain on the University squad...
...fall for managing editor and at the mid-year elections one of the three is chosen. Then comes another competition for assistant managing editorships and elections are again held at the end of the year. The managing editor, after one term in that office, automatically becomes president. Assistants who fail to win their competition are also eligible for the position of editorial chairman...