Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college sports. He finds that it is. Well, perhaps the enthusiasm in the stands "ain't what it used to be," but that does not mean that a supreme effort on the part of Captain Reid's team would not be appreciated in a quiet manner by the present-day undergraduates. On paper the die is cast against Harvard; on the cinders, in the shot, discuss and hammer circles and in the jumping and vaulting pits the story may be something else again. Everlasting enthusiasm and spirit has been crowned by success in the past...
...announcement of four nominee for the vice-presidency of the Harvard Union to succeed L. T. Grimm '29, present holder of the position, w made yesterday by W. S. Stone '26. to Graduate Manager of the Union. F. Brophy '30, R. H. Mackinnon R. S. Morison '30, and W. D. Vogel are the candidates for the office...
...hard for an undergraduate to appraise the present tutorial system; but it seems to me that the time has come to put greater emphasis on the general examinations and less emphasis on the course work. The way to do this, probably, is to cut down the required number of courses, especially during the Senior year, while also elaborating the general examinations and building up the tutorial staff. No doubt this is the trend...
...students can often accomplish more toward attaining a grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
Thirty members of the Harvard Club of Boston have arranged to be present at the Annual Meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs of the country which begins in Cincinnati this morning and will continue until Saturday of this week. President A. Lawrence Lowell, Mr. Allston Burr '89, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, and Mr. Henry M. Williams '85, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, are among those members who have gone from Boston...