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...much better is the "status quo"! One more fence to climb, qua fence, one more handicap to the assertion of individual initiative, one more necessity for clerks and clerkesses, checks, and counter-checks...
...Oxford Union represents a combination of a great number of discussion groups where interests are highly specialized. Except for the Liberal Club, the Poetry Society, and the recreated Republican and Democratic Clubs such discussion groups are conspicuously absent in the University. The Harvard Debating Union therefore, labors under the handicap that it must rouse interest almost solely within itself...
...begun until after the Yale basketball game, and new candidates for the team may present themselves until that time. Freshmen are particularly desired. More men, too, are needed for the second assistant manager competition. Candidates reporting to the Locker Building at 3.30 today will be under no handicap...
...opposing runners. Then, in the 220 yard lap, the Crimson chances seemed completely shattered, when Miller pulled a tendon early in his sprint and was forced to hobble around the track for 180 yards, while the runners for Boston College and Yale forger far ahead. Starting with this tremendous handicap, Baggorty, the Freshman anchor man, began to cut down this lead from the time he took up the baton for the mile run. It seemed a hopeless task. But at the start of the last lap he uncorked a terrific sprint which enabled him to nose the Yale Freshman miler...
...result is the present situation, in which the cat chases his own tail. Failing to get the requisite marks in the first place, the student is given an extra handicap in the shape of probation and told to produce even higher grades than before. While the paternal system exists, probation, as a punishment for disciplinary offenses, may be justified, but a s a remedy for low marks and based on inconclusive marks, probation can hardly be other than short-sighted and utterly unjust...