Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amherst shooting and passing was the team's greatest weakness. The defence, however, especially the work of Stewart and Lamberton, veterans of two contests with Coach Wachter's teams, was strong, making the Harvard players attempt long shots, with which they were unusually successful. Walker was the main scoring power of the Purple players, making several rallies that attempted to threaten the Crimson...
...organization to be known as 'the American Football Officials' Association, having for its main object the uniform interpretation of rules throughout the country, was formed at a recent meeting of football officials, it was announced yesterday...
...year 1920-21, the accounts of the School showed a deficit of approximately $76,000, while the year before the shortage was well over $20,000. The method by which these conditions have been changed, has been, in the main, an increase in the tuition fee. On account of the established of a loan fund of over $30,000 this increase has not been a hardship to students who have been unable to meet it immediately...
...older and newer universities alike are victims of the lecturing habit. Education is conceived mainly as a process of sending students to attend as many lectures as possible, and, while some attempt is made to supply by individual and group tuition the deficiencies of the lecture method, there can be no doubt that the student is expected to acquire his education mainly by the assimilation of lectures. He does not, and cannot in fact, do this, for, although the lecture has its proper place in the scheme of education, it is wholly unsuited to serve as the main instrument...
...into execution, would save everyone trouble, whether borrower, roommate, or librarian. An adapted mailchute could easily be installed somewhere on the outside of Widener into which all books could be returned at any time, whether the library were open, or not. Besides saving students a daily climb of the main staircase, it would allow them to return books in the evening before going to bed, or on Sunday morning before leaving college for a visit to relatives in town; and it would save the library authorities much petty annoyance from those who are late in returning books...