Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entrance examinations as tests of fitness to do college work. The conclusion of the Columbia educators, that entrance examinations do not prevent incompetents for getting into college, that they may cause men of real college calibre "to became discouraged, improperly conditioned, or barred out altogether," in short, that they fail as a measure of fitness, is not startlingly surprising. but the accuracy and thoroughness of the evidence from which they reach this conviction is unusual...
...Freshman class this week, the Entertainment Committee have decided to engage Kanrich's band for Saturday, May 17, the day of the Freshman dual track meet with Yale, and to have a parade of the entire class to the field. Keep this date in mind and be present without fail. 1916 ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE...
...represented. "The Boy and Glenvil," by Mr. Burlingame, cries for compression, for composition in the painter's sense, the focusing of detail on the central figure and suppression of irrelevancies; "The Cursed of Apo," by Mr. George Seldes, is too unrestrained, too full of shrieks. Tragedies both, they both fail to stir the reader's sympathy possibly because they did not in the first place stir the writer's sufficiently...
...donating the use of its rooms for the meetings of that body. It expended for entertainment more than double the highest amount hitherto expended, and treble the amount expended last year. Such a policy, increasing as it does the value of the Union to the student body, can scarcely fail to have a favorable effect upon its membership...
Trials for the University tennis team will begin on the Jarvis Field courts this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Men who fail to appear within half an hour of the time scheduled for play will forfeit their matches. Courts will be reserved for all matches, but must be paid for as usual. Any men who expect to enter the trials and whose names do not appear in the pairings below, should hand in their names at once. Candidates for the University team should leave their names with A. J. Lowrey '13, Holworthy 5; and Freshmen with R. N. Williams...