Word: led
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Reidenbach '15 D.S., of Nineveh, Ind., led last year's Divinity School team, which won the interdepartmental championship.J. Bovingdon '15. H. Epstein '16. E. R. Adams '14. P. L. Sayre '16. AFFIRMATIVE TEAM DEBATING AT NEW HAVEN...
With reference to a communication favoring a "college orchestra" which appeared in your columns yesterday, we feel that a replay is necessary, lest those unacquainted with the activities of the Pierian Sodality Orchestra may be led to a wrong impression regarding the same. Mr. Goldberg's favors the following reforms more systematic regulation of discipline, programs, and personnel. A review of our present season alone would be sufficient to show that the standard of the Pierian Sodality not only satisfies Mr. Goldberg's demands, but surpasses those set by many of the orchestras subsidized by the faculties of other colleges...
Members of the Harvard Club of Boston have organized musical clubs, consisting of men who played and sang while in college. The mandolin club, with a membership of fourteen, is being led by S. B. Blodgett '11, and managed by G. Sturgis '13. The glee club, which was organized first, consists of about thirty men, and is officered by M. H. Wentworth '01, president; M. B. Lang '04, leader; and A. E. Burr '91, secretary. The chief function of the clubs will be to entertain at class smokers and dinners, but after they have prepared a more extensive repertoire...
...failure of forty-six Princeton students at mid-years has led the faculty to institute a new-plan to keep men up in their studies. Twenty-five of the forty-six were sophomores as against sixteen out of forty-four men dropped at Harvard. The report of the Princeton faculty committee on examinations shows that in the majority of failures this year the students dropped had been carrying conditions from previous years, especially in the sophomore class where freshman conditions hung over the failures. The faculty has therefore instituted a series of uniform tests during the course of the term...
...Castle closes with the following remarks: "I must admit that I found the teaching of English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English...