Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Yale crew has displayed consistently better form and display-pressive times in their trials during the past week the Harvard stroke has steadily improved throughout the week's practice. The long steady beat of the Crimson crew will be at its best in the four mile grind where the length and extent of the competition tends to favor the slower, more powerful stroke that has been set by the Crimson sweepswingers. The stroke employed by Brown, while at a great disadvantage in the shorter races against Tech, Cornell and Pennsylvania earlier in the season, will unquestionably show...
...must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow his studies to ripen in his mind. For four years he is subjected to a grind which little by little disheartens him and he never gets his head above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three "B's" and a "C" plus, say, at finals...
Translate four "B" minuses into a percentage average and beside them three "B" pluses and a "C" plus. The man who failed to make the grade has a higher general average than the actual Dean's List by five per cent. The present "System" is a false standard and should be changed or else the basis for financial awards should be changed, for at present...
English is above all a cultural subject; it deals with all ideas that are capable of beautiful expression. An intelligent man who has dedicated four years to its study should come out with a mind rich in ideas, with a deeper knowledge of life and the meaning of life. Of course, he will have to know facts too, but they will only be important to him as forming a solid foundation for his ideas. A Senior whose primary interest is still in the dates of authors, and the names of books, and in the interrelations of sources, has wasted...
...been said, and justly, that the pursuit of science at Harvard is "orientation in a field of force." The writer has had ample opportunity in four years to become convinced that this comparison to the magnetic compass is not only true but that it constitutes a real fault in the scheme of things...