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...much greater if an athletic representative or committee were elected by the residents of each dormitory to combine with representatives of other buildings in organizing teams and arranging schedules in the various sports which are suited to inter-dormitory competition. Some such arrangement would do away with the present haphazard methods, and would increase materially the number of participants...
...Saturday, in order to increase the Alpheus Hyatt Memorial Fund for field lessons for Boston children. The women of the standing committee of the fund, together with many school teachers in the overcrowded districts, are working earnestly to make the fair a success, so that what has heretofore been haphazard field instruction may be systematized, and become a necessary part of the curriculum. Professor Hyatt, who established the fund, was for a long time Professor of Natural History at Harvard...
...have enumerated in a previous letter. It also became necessary to adopt some settled policy in regard to the minor sports, as their number was increasing (three new ones have come into existence this year) and experience has shown that the money assistance granted to them in a somewhat haphazard fashion was growing rapidly in amount...
...uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history of the system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars." It is thus evident that in many...
...March number of the Monthly contains an editorial that is worth both careful reading and concentrated thought. The gist of it is that the present haphazard choice of courses should give way to a systematic method of some kind, even at the cost of a partial sacrifice of the elective system. "A Recent Book on Greek Sculpture" is concise, to the point, and in a graceful style. It does what reviews frequently do not do--combines keen criticism with a sense of appreciation. "The Outside Dormitory: Pro and Con" is a mere collection of superficial commonplaces...