Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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1. Songs, F. H. Cabot, J. C. McMullin: Probation Rag" and "Its a dull way to Prohibition."
Apropos of the subject of study, certain statistics in regard to Freshman probation this year are especially interesting. Out of the forty-four probationers which represent the Freshman crop for the first half-year, it was found that twenty-five had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken less than three cuts, and that eight had taken no cuts at all. Evidently, as Dean Yeomans expressed it, they had shown interest in their work at least to the extent of taking their bodies to the class-room...
This is only further evidence that, as the CRIMSON maintained in a recent editorial, students do not know how to study. It is a peculiar "school state of mind" which leads a man to bring his body to the class-room, while his brain is on the athletic field, or...
All time is not as badly spent as an hour in the morning, but the habit of dallying is, nevertheless, a prolific cause of probation. Whether it is play or work, do something all the time.
Undergraduate opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of the contention that the purpose of the examinations is not attained. A few minutes' hurried reading of a selection which may range in subject matter from architecture to fiction is not a dependable test. The man whose special field is chemistry, whose need...