Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undesirable but objectionable. As long as tickets are in the possession of Harvard men or their friends the holders feel a personal obligation to use them in the manner intended. Once a ticket is sold or given to an outsider this obligation ceases, and it is almost impossible to prevent incidents that...
...bridge has been completed. We hope, however, that it will not be necessary and that, instead, they will pave it before the bridge is completed, not only to suit the tens of thousands of people who will want to use it on special occasions in the fall, but to prevent any unnecessary delay in opening the bridge when it is finished. The wisdom of such action cannot be doubted for a moment; there may be some question of funds, though we think that two or three months interest is not too much to pay to avoid the inconvenience which will...
...account of numerous requests from university and college presidents and others to allow certain students, whose studies or other duties would prevent their attendance for the entire period, to attend the summer camp of instruction at Gettysburg for a shorter period than the full six weeks' course originally contemplated, it has been decided: has been written for the occasion by C. T. Ryder '06, which promises to be one of the most stirring features of the celebration. Also an old anthem will be sung which was used by the students in the eighteenth century for a celebration similar to this...
...interesting to note the conclusion reached by Professors Strayer and Thorndike of Columbia, in their recent book on educational administration, as to the value of the results of entrance examinations as tests of fitness to do college work. The conclusion of the Columbia educators, that entrance examinations do not prevent incompetents for getting into college, that they may cause men of real college calibre "to became discouraged, improperly conditioned, or barred out altogether," in short, that they fail as a measure of fitness, is not startlingly surprising. but the accuracy and thoroughness of the evidence from which they reach this...
...view, but, not receiving the official support essential to its active existence, has gone to sleep for the summer, hoping that next fall will see its being rendered unnecessary by the appointment of a University press agent. We are confident that the authorities will take some measures to prevent the recurrence of the yellow peril that the College has passed through this year...