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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is no need to exclaim very loudly over Harvard's purpose to bring the 11,000 Harvard men of Greater Boston to Cambridge tomorrow and show them the University. Go to the House of Parliament with a Londoner and you are likely to find it as much his first visit as yours. Induce a Maine farmer to climb a well known hill in his neighborhood with you to show you the way, and you may discover he has never set foot before on its premises...
...scheme by which the championship will be won is as follows: For example, if the Standish second or third team defeats the corresponding teams of the other dormitories, that team will add as much to the total Standish score as would the first team if it won. Thus, the dormitory score will be helped as much by a second team as by a first team victory. At the end of the season the points of all the teams of each dormitory, in all the sports, will be added, and the greatest total will be the winner. Thus the "all-round...
Beginning the first of next week the squad will be divided into groups and sent out over the Belmont course under the leadership of the more experienced men. Coach Farrell has worked out the training schedule for the next two weeks, at the end of which time he plans to have the squad in hard training for the Syracuse meet. Rubbers have been signed up and as soon as the squad is classified training tables will begin...
...given yesterday at Columbia took two hours and fifty minutes, including a ten-minute period for practice with the new style of examination. An examiner, with a stop watch, presided over each group of forty or fifty. The test was divided into four parts. Each student was given at first two sharp pencils and a printed pamphlet of questions. The examiner took his stand and at a set time said "Go." Each question, or puzzle, or test--and there were hundreds of them given each person--had to be finished by the second hand and the candidate had to proceed...
...first two tests were concerned with the powers of perception and observation. A man was told to pick out the smallest square in a bevy of squares, to mark words with similar meanings in a jumbled collection, to unravel sentences. One test required the student to pick the proper answer to a question out of four possible ones given. For example...