Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...include on this class committee all men receiving thirty-five votes is obviously unpractical, because of the danger of the body's being entirely too unwieldy. The committee might well be limited to the ten or twelve receiving the highest number of votes, while a minimum number of nominations should be set at fifteen, empowering the Student Council to supplement this number if the class does not fulfill the quota by petitions. The two men with the highest numbers of votes would become President and Vice-President. To award the office of Secretary-Treasurer to the third...
...total of votes cast in the 1923 elections when the polls closed last night was 341, leaving 54 as a minimum to be attained tomorrow. The present class officers have decided not to open the polls today, but tomorrow Juniors may vote at the following places...
Devising ways and means for spending the money of the H. A. A. has long been a popular indoor sport at Harvard. But once in a while we are treated to a really sensible suggestion. The construction of courts on Soldiers Field, as proposed, would entail a minimum of grading and filling, thus insuring a low initial cost. Once built, these courts will undoubtedly provide an excellent income as do those in Jarvis Field at present. The certainly that it will be sound investment thus removes what is one of the chronic objection to the schemes of amateur reformers...
...school which is growing up from breaking off and becoming distinct from the College. Men do not come to the Engineering School for its own sake; they come to Harvard to study engineering. It is therefore imperative that the distinction between the two schools should be kept at a minimum. At present the Freshman Year, as at Yale, is supposedly common to both schools--the men are assigned to the same dormitories; English A is required for both; and in other ways the privileges and requirements are the same...
...days of A, A minus, B plus, B, etc., there was often lacking incentive to aim higher than the minimum. Many men who could do much better merely sought to avod too many Ds. Some few worked for high marks, but the stimulus which comes from competition and plublicity and which helped make prowness in athletics so much desired, was lacking in academic fields. Many men who would rather perish than be called slackers in athletics were willing to dodge all but the bare necessities in studies...