Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listened to with respect by people who appreciate the value of opinion expressed by one not in the heat of world events. His lecture this afternoon should attract those members of the University who believe that their own destinies are not the only ones to which a college president may have...
According to Coach E. A. Wachter, Captain R. H. O'Connell '29, who hurt his leg in Monday's encounter, may be unable to play tonight. In case he cannot appear, he will probably be replaced by either J. H. Ward '30 or Robeson Bailey '29. The remainder of the regular Crimson lineup is intact...
...high seas but it is doubtful if they will succeed. It is not only the least organized labor group, but its members are all too ready to sell their Able Seaman's ticket to any person who desires a touch of nautical life. And the summer sailor may still satisfy his yearning for a vacation position on shipboard by the use of a little ingenuity and nerve...
...most noteworthy fact allied with these figures is that all of these men are committed to try for a distinction degree through a process of specialized academic work in a limited field. For this work they may or may not be fitted; they may or may not desire to attempt it. But they have no choice. The examination passed in Junior year was not only a ticket to the honors arena; if dismissed from their minds their field as a whole. Without this examination, without dismissing their entire field to embrace specialization, they cannot receive a distinction degree...
...examination, then, sets up a false distinction for the specialist by eliminating the honors degree for the student with a broad interest in his field. More than this, it offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves no place...