Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen, two Cs and one D; for Sophomores, a total of five Cs and two Ds; for Juniors, eight Cs and four Ds; and for Seniors, twelve Cs and five and one-half Ds; and for all, no matter what marks they have to their credit, a minimum...
...question of "raising the minimum" of College academic requirements was mentioned in the President's Report and has been brought up again by the Advocate. The latter says that the standard should be raised either by increasing the requisite number of courses or by raising the passing grade. We can see no possible reason in the first suggestion; there may be wisdom in the second...
...this, President Lowell says, "a minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity." Of course, this is absolutely true; a high standard will never solve the problem of stimulating interest in scholarship. The Advocate notes, however, that no provision is made for men of average capacity, and we must admit that the "just average" man is a difficult proposition to deal with. But he is here, and if he cannot be induced to study of himself, should he be obliged to, and if so how much? In other words...
...superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence. We are tending in America to make a fetish...
...objective of the football rules committee should be to reduce to a minimum, without emasculating the game, the possibility of physical injuries to the prayers. To this might be added the opening up of the play for the benefit of the spectators. These reforms the committee purposes to effect by direct technical prohibitions, and by making such rules as will encourage open plays and make concerted attack on one park of the line not a reasonable method of gaining ground...