Word: freer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Scofield Thayer contributes some graceful "Anapaests" and there are verses by J. D. Adams and C. H. Weston, both in the freer forms now in vogue. Neither fully escapes the danger of such verse--the prosaic--but both have something to say and say some of it well...
...Philadelphia Bulletin, it appears that whereas at Harvard the ratio of instructors to students is as one to seven, in the average of colleges throughout the country, it is as one to ten. Such as showing would suggest that personal contact between Faculty and student body is freer and more instructive here than elsewhere. Yet so many are the courses given in abstruse and advanced subjects, where the professor collects a small circle of pupils for research work and the like, that in the large introductory courses this is by no means the case, the ratio there being generally...
...scales, one for graduates and one for undergraduates. The essence of this system lies in grading upon a standard of progress instead of absolute attainment. Such an arrangement seems just and adequate, and its general adoption would add to the attraction of the degree with distinction by allowing a freer choice of courses through a more uniform standard for honor grades...
...years of theatrical experience. "Der Neffe als Onkel" and "Einer muss Heiraten," of previous years were only slender trifles and a little too suggestive of "required reading" in elementary German. "Der Herr Senator" and "Der Raub der Saberinnen" mounted higher in the theatrical scale and were freer from the hint of the class-room. Both, however, in difficulty of performance and in interest to a general audience, fell far below "Alt Heidelberg," the play that the society acted in Jordan Hall in Boston last night and will repeat in Brattle Hall on Thursday...
...Speakers' Club to form a confederation of all College organizations interested in public speaking, appears to be a step in the right direction. Such an association should provide a common forum where undergraduates may discuss the problems constantly arising in University life. It would, moreover, establish a freer, larger, and more pleasant training field from which to draw the University debaters, and, best of all, it would accustom many men to speaking in public...