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Upperclassmen will be called out for the new competitions on Monday, the Freshman competition having been eliminated. Six weeks of work will be required, each candidate spending two weeks on each of the three sports, and at the end of the competition, six positions will be filled. The winner will have his choice of the three second assistant managerships, with the five remaining assistant and Freshman positions awarded by choice to the other candidates in order of their rank in the competition...
...outstanding advantages of the new plan over the old one lie in the broad acquaintance it gives candidates with the three minor sport fields, and in the practical experience afforded in managing basketball, fencing, and wrestling before a choice of one sport is required. Candidates will be rated, as in all other Harvard managerial competitions, on scholarship, executive ability, industry, efficiency, reliability, and personality. Minor sports numerals and letters will be awarded to University and Freshman managers. These numerals will all be of the same type, in accordance with the recommendation of the Minor Sports Council last month. At that...
...seemed that a compulsory mixing for a single year would not be resented, that it would be regarded very differently from an arbitrary assortment for the whole college course, and that at the end of that year many new attachments would have been formed among men who in a large college would not otherwise meet so readily. That was the original motive for the Freshman Halls. Both of these anticipations have proved true. There has been no resentment at the compulsory assignment to the several Freshman Halls, although the policy of dividing those coming from the same school among different...
...House is intended to comprise as nearly as may be a cross-section of the whole residential membership of the college, to be selected by the Masters and their assistants from the applicants. I say from the applicants because there seems at present little doubt that for the two new Houses, to be finished in September, 1930, there will be more than applicants enough of all kinds: and when the plan is complete, students are unlikely to want to be left out of a system substantially universal. I should add that the applications may be made individually or in groups...
...American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Coolidge has been prominent in various mathematical organizations. He is member and ex-vice-presdent of the American Mathematical Society; member and ex-president of the Mathematical Association of America; and ex-president of the Association of Mathematics Teachers in New England...