Word: manned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...absurd position in which certain Seniors have been placed by appointment to positions as assistants in courses where they must correct the work of their own classmates, the editorial proceeds to discredit the entire system of employing men but recently graduated, as instructors in undergraduate courses. Such "a man," says the editorial, "who goes directly from his undergraduate work here into the work of teaching other Harvard undergraduates is bound to be narrow and of little value as a teacher." In concluding the Monthly suggests as a remedy a rule to forbid the appointment of men as instructors who have...
...agreed, are "bound to be" narrow; and in some cases, where three-year men are assistants in courses taken largely by Seniors, and are called upon to correct themes of their own classmates. The remedy suggested is a regulation that shall prohibit the appointment of any Harvard man to a position as instructor or assistant in the University who has not been graduated at least two years. Personally, the reviewer doubts the efficacy of such a rule. To his mind, the question of the young instructor resolves itself into a question of individual fitness and personality, and the good judgment...
...University Shooting Club will hold a match with the Boston Athletic Association gun team at 2 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. Each man will shoot at 100 birds thrown at unknown angles from Expert traps...
...first four men on the University team, on which five men will shoot, will be N. C. Nash '07, captain, J. R. Gilman '09, R. L. Smith '09, L. Thomas '09. The other man will be chosen later...
...upon to row a two-mile race. The most noticeable fault has been that at every stroke the boat has swung to starboard, showing that the bow port men more than counterbalanced the work on the opposite side of the boat. For this reason, Glass, who is the biggest man in the boat, was moved to number 6, and Captain Bacon took his place at 4. The return of Fish, who had not been rowing for some time on account of sickness, definitely decided who should row at 2. Fish was tried for one day at bow, but his work...