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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Illustrated will resume publication after the Christmas recess. Because of the small number of editors left in College, competitions have already commenced in the news, business, and photographic departments...
...coveted Phi Beta Kappa trophy given each year by the University chapter to the preparatory school whose graduates make the best record in the entrance examinations, goes this year to the Country Day School for Boys, of West Newton. The award is based on the number of boys who attain the honor list in proportion to the number admitted. Those on this list, twenty-nine in number, reached an average grade of work in all their examinations worthy of honorable mention...
...order to meet the contingency arising from the fact that there will be a large number of discharged soldiers who will return late to College, the University Faculty will probably make a date of entrance later than the regular registration day, January 2. Men who cannot return before January 2, will thus be able to pursue their curriculum without inconvenience or delay. Without relaxing the usual scholastic standards, every effort will be made to lessen the difficulty such men will encounter on returning to College after an interruption of in some cases, three of four years...
...only is much time being lost regularly on the unnecessarily strict observance of routine, but the officers in some cases regard this as the "open season" for all week-end leaves of absence. Trivial infractions are punished by confinement to barracks and a number of hours of fatigue duty at the week-end. Such a policy plays havoc with the victim's time for study. For, he is not only denied the use of the library, and freedom of action for similar purposes, but brass and window polishing is substituted, per force, for necessary preparation of courses. The result...
Resolved: Whereas a very great number of members of the University have entered the service of their country during the war and are now, in most cases, about to return to civil life, the Board of Overseers urges that they return to the University and complete their studies...