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...value of any sort of examinations except finals has been seriously questioned by many educators. Yale, in its recently announced plan, will omit even midyears, and hold three reading periods at different times during the college year. At the opposite extreme stand those courses demanding weekly or biweekly tests, and sometimes even section meetings during a reading period. Both plans have advantages, but those of the freer course are more desirable...
President Lowell of Harvard University, who sometimes seems very close to the stern, unbending Puritan of tradition, has yielded one step to the protest of Harvard graduates and undergraduates against the intention to omit from the new Harvard Memorial Chapel any mention of the three Harvard graduates who died fighting in the German armies. The chapel will be a monument to the men who gave their lives in the Allied cause, but there will be room in it for a tablet to the three Germans, all of whom, as it happens, died before the United States entered the World...
...omit the name of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the U. S., who was born at Hillsborough...
...interpreting news. My judgment is that your subscribers belong to a class of fairly intelligent people, as competent to interpret facts as you. Personally, I wish you might stay what you claimed to be when I first received your advertising matter: a newsmagazine.∙ I should prefer that you omit the colorings of your own prejudices...
...Auburn cemetery. The runners will then complete two loops over and around the hill back of the cemetery, and will cross the Watertown Bridge, finishing the race near the Boston side of the Larz Anderson Bridge. The Freshman course will begin at the same place but will omit the "loops" to reduce the course to about three miles...