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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...paddled up to the two-mile mark in stretches rowing about 28 strokes to the minute. At this point the second crew was given a length's start, and both crews settled down for a long stretch, Crew A rowing about 27 and the seconds working at a slighter higher stroke. At the three-fourths mile mark the first eight raised the stroke, but Crew B shot up a corresponding amount, and at the mile mark the seconds had gained a half length...
...this demand. Being itself on a graduate basis and maintaining a standard of work which is almost unique among institutions of its type, it has a special obligation in that regard. As for the Ph. D. degree, that of itself would matter little. But nearly all the institutions of higher education in this country seem to regard the holding of that degree as one of the passports to a teaching position. Some college presidents virtually insist that they will appoint no one as instructor who has not been tagged with this title. Others will appoint undoctored instructors, but will...
...second and Freshman eights rowed to the Navy Yard, and on the way back a very pretty race was held between these boats. The Freshmen rowing four points higher than the seconds soon caught a slight lead and the race was neck and neck until the last drive, when Crew B raised the stroke and finished two lengths ahead of the 1919 men. The second crew is still poor at a low stroke, but much improvement was seen today in this race against a heavy wind and tide...
...public in the largest measure. In the second place, not only must such a school from the very nature of the case be numerically insignificant, but it seems to be based upon an erroneous pedagogical principle. President Eliot, by pulling up, as he thought, the American college, to a higher or university level, advanced the age of graduation to about twenty-two, and at the same time made the attainment of the college degree a prerequisite to professional or research work. The college thus came to occupy the contradictory position of a university and of something less than a university...
...Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity," by Professor Clifford Herschel Moore '89, of the Latin Department, deals with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion, and discusses also ancient morality, Roman religion, oriental cults, and early Christianity...