Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proof to show why he should go on to high school, and on the high school boy lies much more heavily the burden of proof to show why he should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high in scholarship as the high school boys...
...CRIMSON wishes to congratulate the editors of the 1912 Class Album which makes its appearance today. To the entire class, through whose co-operation such a complete Album has been made possible, much credit is due. In the quantity and quality of its pictures, in its literary matter, as well as in its small cost to the buyer, the Album far excels all previous ones and sets a standard which future classes must strive hard to maintain. The Album is a complete record of college life and activities-a record which every man who is leaving college should carry with...
...that a thorough discussion of the problem would be of interest and profit, has invited correspondence on the subject from the track coaches of several large colleges and universities. Some of this correspondence we are printing in another column. The comments received in reply to our questions on the matter represent the careful thought of men who are very closely connected with track athletics in this country and whose opinions are of the greatest value. In the replies received from seven prominent coaches, it is to be noted that only one man expresses himself in favor of the hammer-throw...
...meeting held last night the Junior class decided that the matter of raising the $2500 necessary to install electric lights in the four Senior dormitories, Hollis, Holworthy, Stoughton, and Thayer, be left in the hands of those members of the class to whom rooms in the Senior dormitories have been allotted for next year. As about 260 men will occupy the rooms which will benefit by the proposed improvement, the amount that each will have to subscribe to make the plan successful will be very small. The action of the class makes it a purely personal issue with next year...
...clock. A committee will report on the proposition of having electric lights installed in the Senior dormitories next year, and after the proposition has been openly discussed, some action will be taken. It is important that all Juniors make it a point to attend the meeting, as the matter in question is a vital...