Word: places
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competitive games, and it is interesting to know that in this building these, is a very small space devoted to the old type gymnasium facilities. I doubt if there will be more than a dozen pairs of dumb bells or Indian clubs in the whole building, but in their place we shall have swimming, wrestling, boxing, fencing, basketball, indoor tennis and other competitive games which are far more stimulating and character-building to the boy and to the instructor than the methods used twenty years...
...steel rods which has held Harvard men past and present together is Class Spirit. At no time is this better demonstrated than today. To place Freshmen in these separate units, to break them up into groups of seventy-five or 100 from each class would mean the death of the class as a unit. If may be argued that loyalty to one's house is to take the place of loyalty to the class. Such is not the intention of those advocating the House plan. The class of 1934 we hope will be just as much of a unit...
...been suggested, "why not place seniors together and develop your class as a whole at that time?" The answer here is that educationally this is inadvisable as the houses cover the period of a man's preparation for his divisional examinations at the end of the Senior Year, the climax of his scholastic career. To cut off the Senior from his tutors at the most critical time would be unwise. To transfer divisional examinations from the Senior to the Junior year would create an anti climax...
...found it advisable to deal with Freshman problems separately, this policy is not based on close: "supervision" of Freshmen. The Harvard authorities do not care to direct the mode of living of its students either in the Freshman dormitories or in the Houses. What Harvard does is to place the opportunity before an undergraduate, and with the possible exception of the question of standards of scholarship, leave it up to him to take it if he wants to. Freshman Deans, Advisers. Proctors and Supervisors are on hand for anyone to consult who wants to, but unless...
...teams were tied in first places in the last Stadium meet in 1927, but Harvard and Yale won with 7 1-2 seconds to 4 1-2 seconds. The American Collegians were favored to win the meet in 1927 at London but Oxford and Cambridge developed unexpected strength and won 7-3.FRESHMAN CAPTAIN WHO WON PLACE ON H-Y TEAM E. E. RECORD...