Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In his speech Dean Greenough maintained that the lack of scholarship among the college undergraduates of the present day lies largely with the mothers of the students. The student, he stated, gets the impression from his mother that athletics are more important than studies, and therefore is not interested in...
Dean LeB. R. Briggs '75, expressed a favorable opinion on probation, saying that "it is a good thing, because the period preceding the November hour examinations is a short one for so important a decision."
The new ruling of the faculty to abolish probation at the November hours will be heartily approved by the student body. It is a well-advised change, prompted by long experience with the inadequacy of the old plan.
H. T. Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, declared that he was strongly in favor of the new faculty ruling, as was the whole Student council. Dunker said that last year's Student Council had brought forward the fast that the inequality of the probation periods made probation an...
The scholastic results attained at Harvard by graduates of private boarding schools have for the last few years been most unsatisfactory. This fact will certainly be endorsed by the College authorities, by the graduates of the schools now at College, and by the headmasters of these schools. In fact, one...