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...bring you to a fairer place...
...final games; if a game is worth playing at all it is worth playing with the best one has. But a revised schedule, which would put a less vigorous game in between the two final games for both Princeton and Yale, would meet modern conditions and be much fairer to both than the present one-sided arrangement can ever...
...cent. to lead the list of men of distinction. These figures, however, must be discounted. The New England States have so low a position in the list because there is less selection among the men coming from them; proximity is here a large factor. It would be fairer to New England were it possible to give position in a corresponding list drawn up at a university outside. At any rate, it is clear that a man from the Rocky Mountain States has as great an opportunity for distinction in the University as a man from Massachusetts...
Present conditions in the College do not give cause for satisfaction. The number of students coming from regions west of the Mississippi was 155 in 1912-13, 131 in 1913-14, 165 in 1914-15. To take perhaps a fairer example, the number of students whose homes are west and south of Pennsylvania has, during the last three years, been only slightly over four hundred. And more than half of the enrollment in Harvard College is from Massachusetts alone...
...year will be given the alternative of taking either an oral or written examination at the beginning of the Junior year, before they are put on probation. Although probation still remains the penalty for failure to pass the examination under this new arrangement, nevertheless students are given a much fairer chance to prepare themselves for it, and consequently failure to pass the examination will be more to their own discredit than it was before. A further recommendation made by the Council to the College is to the effect that men on probation for failure to pass the oral should...