Word: mean
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...studies, but who fails the orals is just as much no probation as the man who is guilty of a really serious breach of college discipline, or the man whose standing in his regular work in really a disgrace, probation will be regarded too lightly. If probation is to mean anything; if it is to be feared alike by those who are on it and those who are not, it should not be imposed for falling the orals, except as the very last penalty. The Student Council's suggestion when put in operation will make undergraduates give more serious consideration...
...mean the principle of reserving courts in advance, without being tied down in any way to making use of the privilege. In no theatre can one reserve seats right up to the time of the performance, and it seems to me that the same principle should apply here. As the scheme has worked out, men reserve courts and, later finding themselves unable to use them, simply fail to claim them. The vacancies remain filled according to the charts, however, and later applicants are thus prevented from reserving courts. I have also heard that there are men who abuse the privilege...
...soccer season will, of course, be eclipsed by football, and men who have participated in both sports will now be forced to confine themselves to one. Naturally, they will participate in the major sport, and soccer will lose men accordingly. The prolonging of the season almost to Christmas will mean in all probability a frozen if not snow-covered field, which will be inconvenient to both spectators and players. The abandonment of spring games will take away an excellent source of exercise for many men, while the long fall and winter season means weaker teams and inferior playing, because...
...literacy test would mean a yearly exclusion of some 350,000 immigrants. This exclusion is justified because, after barring criminal and pauper, it amounts to criminal negligence to admit immigrants of the same rank and intelligence as those which produce these evils...
...rebutting, the negative pointed out that there was a demand for labor and that illiteracy was not a test of working ability. Illiteracy does not necessarily mean undesirable, and there is absolutely no ground for the test as a means to employment. R. W. Stoelzing, of Princeton, was taken ill and was unable to deliver his rebuttal