Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the mortality percentage for the General Examinations is a known quantity and we may behold our fallen comrades, it might be well to cast a glance at the examination system which determined who is to have a degree...
...than the other senior. But with the existing inequalities among the departments it is not always true that the senior who is given a degree has obtained a better education (in the broad sense of the word) than the senior from whom a degree is withheld. Thus the system may frequently do a grave injustice to a senior, only because he has chosen the harder path...
This is not mere theorizing. I feel sure that the system has actually done an injustice to one of my classmates (there may be more) in as much as it is to deny him an degree and is to give a degree to certain men in the "snap" departments who not only have been notorious loafers during their college careers but also have failed to make themselves worthy of the ranks of the educated...
...that at the present time we have over 100 tennis courts, 11 football fields, 9 baseball fields, 3 soccer fields, 2 lacrosse fields, 2 running tracks and over 100 shells for boating. Unfortunately, the weather conditions force us indoors between December 1 and March 1, and in passing it may be interesting to note that between October 1 and May 1 over 64,000 man half-hour periods of squash were played by students of the University on the University squash courts...
...past and present together is Class Spirit. At no time is this better demonstrated than today. To place Freshmen in these separate units, to break them up into groups of seventy-five or 100 from each class would mean the death of the class as a unit. If may be argued that loyalty to one's house is to take the place of loyalty to the class. Such is not the intention of those advocating the House plan. The class of 1934 we hope will be just as much of a unit 30 years hence as is the class...