Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strict enforcement of a time limit on assignments would in all probability stimulate the student to the degree of effort demanded by the faculty. Such mechanical rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...
...function of nagging careless students, the Committee on the Use of English by Students works to good effect. Its warnings and summonses enforced by threats of English F do much to inculcate the idea that English A sets a minimum standard for upper class men as well as freshmen. But in dealing with particular cases, the ways of the Committee are inscrutable...
There can be no question about the University's pressing requirement for unrestricted funds. In every department money is needed for assistance and equipment, such as to obtain the maximum of productivity and the minimum of administrative work for the ablest teachers and investigators. This is the one vital need of the University. According as it is measurably met or not, the prestige of Harvard is maintained or lost...
...record of the Debating Union is one of high mediocrity. In its three and one half years of existence, it has held fourteen meetings with attendances ranging from a minimum of forty to a usual audience of about sixty and an extraordinary maximum of four hundred brought out by the football debate last fall. It has thrived best on college subjects. The biggest and most ardent audiences were attracted by the topics of football and military training...
...ordinary sources of revenue, but little provision is made for an advance in the salary scale of the present instructors, which should necessarily be proportionate to the rising cost of living. If the proper type of college graduate is to be attracted to the teaching profession, a decent minimum standard of existence must be offered. An increase in the number of tutors and section men is also imperative, since the individual student is now the unit of instruction...