Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed with. In behalf...
...have noticed with very great pleasure a campaign against the present evils of the athletic administration. The most flagrant of these is the so-called two period rule, which seems to me to defeat its own end. The apparent object of this regulation is to prevent the undergraduates from indulging in sports to the neglect of their studies. It prevents men from competing in three different seasons, not in three different sports. One of the peculiar results is that a person can in one year be a member of the football, the baseball and the track teams, whereas he cannot...
...interest lies in the game itself. Played on a hard floor in a poorly ventilated hall, it is naturally not as attractive as out-of-door exercise, and the games often more closely resemble free fights than friendly contests between amateur teams. Although the two-period rule may possibly prevent some men from going out, it can not account for the general attitude, and its abolition would be no considerable factor toward the success of the team. At other eastern colleges, notably Yale and Brown, similar disapproval has been expressed, but the teams have nevertheless received better support than here...
...superintendent of schools in Wellesley, delivered the first address. He pointed out the lack of home influence on students in the grammar schools and said that they must be worked with individually. Professor W. T. Foster '01 of Bowdoin College emphasized the need of backbone in college administration to prevent standards from being lowered for the sake of larger numbers. H. W. Holmes '03, chairman of the Committee on Educational Progress, then read an abstract from his report...
...hope that the strain of playing two such important games in three days will not prevent the team's bringing the championship back to Cambridge...