Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion has been made that in war time when colleges are reduced in size, less attention to the qualification of applicants for admission might be given, with a rigid elimination later of those who cannot keep the pace, or who do not prove capable of doing the work well. That sounds reasonable, but anyone, who is in the habit of conducting a class knows that the pace depends upon the students as well as the instructor, and that to add to a class even a small proportion of men less competent than the rest inevitably slows the pace...
Tomorrow evening Technology swimmers will meet the Amherst team in the Boston Y.M.C.A. A later contest is scheduled with Wesleyan at Middletown and arrangements are being made for taking up the races with Yale, which were postponed because of the fuel shortage. Yale is now tied with Princeton and Columbia for the swimming championship between those colleges...
...first of a series of conferences to be held in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday and Friday afternoons during the next few weeks will take place tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock. At that time Professor G. H. Chase '96 will speak on "The Parthenon and Its Later History." Professor Chase will also be the lecturer on February 18 and 25, when he will take up "The Sculptures of the Parthenon" and "Praxiteles...
...debate: "Resolved, That, except in so far as is necessary to conceal military and naval secrets from the enemy, the United States Government should take no measures to prevent the publication and circulation of any paper." Teams chosen from each dormitory will debate on a subject to be announced later on March 8, 13 and 18; each team will uphold against one opponent the affirmative and against the other the negative. Individual loving cups, offered by former University debaters, will be presented to the members of the winning team...
...announced yesterday and later confirmed by President Lowell that Lieutenant-Commander Joseph C. Nowell, U. S. N. N. V., will take charge of the University Ensign School in place of Lieutenant Edward F. Greene, who died three weeks ago. Commander Nowell arrived yesterday from Norfolk, Va., where he has been in charge of the Cadet School of the Fifth Naval District. He entered at once upon his duties here, and will remain in charge of the Ensign School for the rest of the year. Commander Nowell has had considerable experience both in the Navy and as an instructor in training...