Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...count for a degree, but like all of these, it gradually dwindled and disappeared. A course counting for a degree would undoubtedly be well attended and would materially benefit those who took it, but as it could not, from its very nature, be made compulsory, it would naturally fail to reach the entire student body. There are two methods, however, by which all students could be reached,--through English A, or by an entrance test in reading. The former method seems perhaps the more feasible, and there is considerable spare time in the recitations in English A, which might very...
...obvious remedy for this halting system of study is to secure a more even distribution of the work by scattering the conferences throughout the week; and in order that this rearrangement be uniform, it should be made under the supervision of the Recorder. This could hardly fail to improve the general level of the work, for it would mean the substitution of a constant pressure of study for the present alternating periods of idleness and congestion...
...photographing the heavens" and supplies information, such as it is, about the astronomical instruments, their cost and equipment. The exploration and exploitation of Darkest Harvard for the benefit of readers of the Illustrated is without a doubt a worthy mission for a college periodical. But the mission must fail if the explorers, unlike Mr. Andrew Lang, who wrote about Oxford, persist in dullness of substance...
Insecticides fail to reach either the leopard moth or bark-borer. And such a spraying as the trees got when attacked by the elm-leaf beetle may have something to do with the apparent absence of insect enemies of the two above-named species. For the spraying of the trees could have easily killed their parasites, which might have been lurking about on the trees at the time the spray- ing was done. And one thing that favors this theory is,--the leopard moth is worst in that part of the Yard which was the most carefully sprayed...
...point, the testing of fitness for admission, the desideratum doubtless is that all schools men should be admitted who by their ability to keep up to Harvard requirements show that they can profit by Harvard instruction. That the entrance examinations, whether given by Harvard or by the Board, sometimes fail to test this fitness properly, is as evident as that a course examinations may sometimes fail to measure accurately the work done by a student. The Harvard committee on admission, through its own examinations and those of the College Board, is adjusting as equitably as it can the difficult relations...