Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eaton believes that there has been a general misapprehension as to the final goal, and he states a direct issue,--Oxford tutorial system versus the Lecture-Tutorial plan in effect at Harvard. Believing this issue to be of more than passing importance the CRIMSON will forego further editorial comment until tomorrow, when this column will be devoted to a careful and detailed discussion of the question...
...comparatively minute. The outcome is this: a man who is gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods of the college year, is saved...
...Under the system in force at the University before the tutorial system began," Professor Eaton said, "the student's final thesis represented a careful written exposition of his subject. Under the tutorial system, the thesis is discussed with the tutor before it is written, so that a verbal expression of ideas, with the consequent rounding of knowledge, precedes and shapes the written expression...
Leading by a length and a half, University crew P stroked by John Watts '28, won the final fall race yesterday afternoon on a three and one-half mile down stream course from Watertown to Newell Boathouse. C. McK. Norton '29 stroked his crew M to second place, with L. D. Parker '30 bringing his boat crew R a length behind, and with the crew O stroked by R. D. Bolster '28 several lengths behind Parker's crew...
Watts and Norton were abreast for half of the course, when Watts began to pull ahead. Parker, in a final spurt, brought his crew from several lengths back up to within a length of the second crew...