Word: manly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...major national problem these foreigners in our midst will loom in importance, as war problems fade. This task, indeed, will be the central one of reconstruction. No man knew this fact better nor preached its needs more consistently than Theodore Roosevelt. His recommendation should be our guarantee of its importance...
...determination of the credit to be granted, the length of service will be considered and the amount of credit made proportionate; but no matter how long a man's service may have been, he will not be credited with more than four courses; that is, twelve courses plus English A is the smallest amount of work acceptable for the War Degree. If a man's war service interrupted less than one year of study he is to be given credit for the maximum amount of work that he could have completed, had he stayed in College...
Nobody will deny the good intentions of the ladies of Cambridge in their endeavors to help the undergraduates, but the result of their efforts has been detrimental to the University. No college man wants to be "Mothered", still less does he hanker after fudge and a place where his buttons may be sewn on. Civilian life with all its freedom is quite a different thing from the restrictions of military or naval life. The well-intentioned ladies have misinterpreted the needs and requirements of the students...
...highly unfortunate, but nevertheless true, that any new idea evolved in connection with the University, however unofficial, bears the Harvard stamp. Once, when a man who had registered as a Freshman and left within three days was killed in an unfortunate accident, though this occurred ten years later, the newspapers referred to the incident as that of "Another Harvard Man Gone Wrong...
...extend the general examination plan now used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass...