Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...region on Mt. Auburn street from Westmorly to Dunster street has gradually become populated practically entirely by undergraduates, and the students have come to look upon the neighborhood as a sort of playground where one can disport himself pretty much as he pleases at all hours of the day and night. During the spring months in particular, the noise and disturbance throughout the night become so annoying that sleep is often almost impossible. The various men in training have issued unavailing pleas for quiet, but the criminally thoughtless rioters have continued their noise unchecked...
The interest among graduates in this matter has naturally been keen and widespread. The alumni in every state in the land have had it on their minds during these months and the possible men have been gone over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and...
...mere member of the faculty it is pleasing to find the editorial dealing, however unfavorably, with a question of instruction instead of athletics. The writer makes pleas for a better supervision of assistants, for consultation and co-operation among members of a department with a view to more effective teaching, and for an official request for undergraduate opinion upon methods of instruction. Such criticism as that made here would be more likely to win a hearing if the writer would first fortify himself with a knowledge of the facts. Assistants are supervised, are sometimes dropped, sometimes promoted. Departments do meet...