Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much emphasis is ordinarily laid upon intercollegiate athletics as a means of bringing colleges together, that one is tempted to overlook the quieter, more informal opportunities for contact. Newspaper headlines and brass bands blind the eye and dull the ear to all but the most spectacular events. And there is certainly nothing spectacular about a meeting of thirteen deans unless it be good material for the nightmare of a dropped Freshman...
Lacking in news value and human interest though a convention of deans may be, it no doubt offers more real opportunity for interchange of ideas and the promotion of friendship than many a football classic or track meet. Much of present day college administration centers in the dean's office, and it is here that most measures which directly affect the student body have their origin. Anything, therefore, which brings the occupants of these key positions together ought also to result in a closer coordination of the aims and methods of the colleges involved. During today and tomorrow Harvard...
...University tennis team made it ten in a row by blanking the Brown netmen, 9 to 0 at Providence yesterday afternoon. This is the sixth shutout of the ten victories of the Crimson this season, and was achieved without much difficulty...
...Winsor speaks of having Freshmen "assigned" to a House, and then "moulded" by the House Master to fit the House. But Harvard does not try to "mould" its men, now, and there should be no more moulding after the new Houses are in being. Why isn't it much better to let them have a year to choose their friends and choose their House. Under Mr. Winsor's suggestion. I'm afraid there would be a great deal of changing Houses at the end of the Freshman year. The House Plan is to be one essentially of choice...
...hardly likely that the Bruin aggregation, three of whom, including Captain Williams, are sophomores, and none of whom have had much intercollegiate experience should give Captain B. H. Whitbeck's men much opposition...