Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reptation for great strength in the Greek and Latin classics. The only way of settling a controversy like this is by actual experiment, continued long enough to show positive results. The experience of other countries will not serve us, for in every case there will be found governmental oversight of universities or some condition which does not obtain in the United States. The discretion which President Eliot thinks a youth is able to exercise at 18 is not recognized in law as suitable for him until he is 21. In the preparatory schools a choice of studies is not allowed...
Through an oversight Mr. Root, '85, and Mr. Davidson, '85, were not informed of the change made in the programme of Saturday's meeting as published in the CRIMSON, and both consequently arrived too late for the mile run. After the meeting Mr. Root ran a mile in 5.5 1-2, thus beating the record made at the meeting...
...moreover, the faculty of every college having a system of athletics would exert a sympathetic as well as a judicious oversight of the students interested in the system, they would find the young men quite willing to listen to friendly suggestions...
...opinion between students and professors as expressed at this meeting seemed to be as to the possibility of pursuing any middle course under the present system. President Eliot and Professor White seemed to consider such a course quite impossible. Mr. Coolidge and others argued that by a judicious oversight by the faculty committee and by using extreme care in employing professionals as trainers no element of professionalism need be introduced into our sports. The excess of college athletics could easily be checked, and things reduced to the basis of the time not long passed, when the present crusade against professionalism...
...science. Mr. E. L. Conandt, '84, in approving the action of the faculty showed how the river and Jarvis field, which should be for the use of all, had been given up to a few men, and said that athletics had extended beyond their proper sphere and needed due oversight and regulation. The debate of the regular disputants was closed by Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, who argued that the faculty had not right to interfere simply because football or base-ball were played somewhat differently from the time when they (the faculty) were in college. Improvements had taken place...