Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...teams this week, so interest centers on the Intercollegiate. Track Meet in the Stadium Friday and Saturday. In view of the fact that the University captured a majority of first places in both the Yale and Princeton meets, the chances of winning the Intercollegiates this week appear to be good...
...movement claims for its foundation the following facts: first, the teaching profession is notoriously underpaid. The life of the late Carleton Parker offers a classic example of the way an adequate salary will increase the productivity of a teacher. Second, the wretchedly weak administration of Boards of Education render good pedagogy almost impossible. However this concerns primarily the public school system and does not touch Harvard...
...with good teaching could learn enough Latin in six months to get into an American college", says Mr. Chapman, "and just this amount, this little smattering of latin, is enough to make the whole difference in any man's outlook upon civilization. This bonus bona, bonum' makes French and Spanish and Italian easy to him. It puts him at home in half the words of the English language. Almost everything an educated man has to do with is tinged with 'bonus, bona, bonum...
...Universities have decided that the Latin phrase-book is too hard for the American brain. It is difficult and unnecessary. The real reason that our Universities are throwing over Latin is that Latin has been badly taught, and it is easier to throw Latin over than to bring in good teaching. But what a calamitous state for the learned...
...gathering in Phillips Brooks House marks the close of the work of the Association during the past college year. But in a larger sense it means more. The men who have been contributing their time and service to the many and varied subsidiary organizations are to meet for a good time in the House of the parent association. It is an opportunity for those who have been devoting their interest in a special field to meet on a common ground many other undergraduates and alumni who are actively working along different lines but with the same ideal of service...