Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present system of athletic training at West Point is so different from that of most colleges that a brief description of it might be of interest to Harvard men. Twenty-five years ago no general participation in athletics, as distinguished from the course in calisthenics, gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wresting and riding required of all cadets, was necessary. Participation in the major sports as well as in tennis; golf, polo, etc., was optional and no instruction was provided for those who took up tennis or golf, which, incidentally, could be played only on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons...
...with collegiate training who have done well in business and finance in New York City must be very high. Yet there must be times when, puzzled how to decide among the qualifications of more boys than there is room for, Dean Gauss and Dean Hoermance wish that Mr. Carlisle might win a few prosolytes to his harsh theory. New York Times...
...features that has marked the policy of Harvard University in its handling of what might be called the private conduct of its students has always been a marked avoidance of any regulations which would in any way smack of paternalism. It is a good policy but it implies a sense of responsibility and a working knowledge of the dictates of good taste on the part of her undergraduates. To an almost remarkable degree it has been successful. But in the case of the annual initiations of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, there has been an increasing tendency to impose...
...sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio was not allowed to come...
...serious, work-filled life at a university might almost as well be non-existent. Exploitation of collegiate Fords, fraternity, parties and infractions of rules has created an impression on the public mind that is pitiably false...