Word: long
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Emphasis on a field of study (as opposed to a course) tends to an individual system of education, with less assigned work and more voluntary work. Students at Harvard have long felt that there is something fundamentally wrong with the system of instruction. Whether the cause is a too definite prescription of work to be done, or lack of contact with the professors, or insufficient stimulation of originality, or the uninspiring personality of some section-men, many would-be students acquire late, or do not acquire at all, that absorption in their work which brings the greatest satisfaction. To this...
Owing to the heavy wind the University crews did not row yesterday, but hereafter A, B, and C will be on the river regularly as long as the weather permits outdoor rowing. From present indications this will mean about two weeks more practice for the crews that are still rowing...
...election of Calvin Coolidge for Governor of Massachusetts by a plurality of from 50,000 to 100,000. A record vote was cast, exceeding that of 520,000 which was polled in 1916. Mr. Coolidge gained tremendously in every district; in Boston alone latest returns last night indicated that Long's plurality had been...
Yesterday's football practice, though long, was not particularly hard. A long session before the blackboard was followed by signal practice in the Stadium. Teams A, B, and C, ran up and down to warm up, before the University second team came onto the gridiron. Then a snappy tackle-less scrimmage ensued between Team A and the seconds, while B and C watched from the sidelines. W. J. Murray Occ., R. S. Humphrey '21, E. L. Casey Occ., and S. Burnham Occ., formed the backfield while C. F. Havemeyer '21 was back in his old position in the center...
Team B: John Sise '21, captain; A. E. Chambers '21, H. C. Brown '21, F. H. Cummings '21, O. Hooker, Jr., '21, A. King '21, E. E. Long '21, J. A. Lowell '21, G. M. Appleton '22, J. T. Bradlee '22, J. M. Martin '22, D. D. Miller '22, G. S. Morse '22, S. S. Rogers '22, P. L. Romaine '22, J. L. McLane...