Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need of wearing his regalia. Yet this custom is none of the puerile collegiate tricks to which Harvard long since turned thumbs down; it is a dignified and respected tradition, with a long tale of years behind it. The University, becoming even more amorphous, gives up for the present the claim that a class grows unified in its last year. But there is still time for the Seniors to overcome their reticence or indifference. The June festivities will probably not be barren of caps and gowns; it is only unfortunate that six weeks are required to bring them...
Charles Lester Bickel, A.B. William Jewell College, 1927, at present a graduate student in Chemistry at Harvard; and Russell Lowell Daussat, at present of Louisiana State University, graduate S.B. and M.S. of Louisiana State College, have been awarded posts as Austin Teaching Fellows in Chemistry for the year...
...same time the finals and 11 other events as well will be contested. The Handicap meet affords an opportunity for former college athletes in the graduate schools, for Freshmen, and for men on probation or otherwise prevented from intercollegiate competition to stack up against Coach Farrell's present crop of stars, while men of non-squad calibre are aided by liberal handicaps to compete with more experienced athletes...
...With the present market, temporarily deluged by the aspiring productions of every college paper, the value of the parody, as well as the quality of the parody has taken a fall indeed. The spontaneity of a Yale or Princeton issue, the "Evening Graphite" or the "Daily Prints-anything" fortunately intervenes occasionally to tide over the barrenness of the customary publication, but the laurels are fast fading upon the tortured brow of college journalism in this particular field of endeavour, and it may be said that its success will only follow in the footsteps of its comparative rarity...
...Student Vagabond" and "The Third Elective" are doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however...