Word: probationers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Probation is becoming a serious menace to Harvard athletics," said Assistant Graduate Treasurer T. J. Campbell '12 of the H. A. A. to the gathering of baseball candidates yesterday afternoon. "A stiffening of college requirements may have something to do with it; but the main cause continues to be abject...
At 15 he went to China, where his father, Charles Denby, was then U. S. Minister. For a number of years he served in the International Customs Service of that country. But at 26 he was back in the U. S. and had his LL.B. from the University of Michigan...
Whether or not anything comes of the suggestion, its more proposal is significant in that it gives voice to a widespread discontent with the present mechanical, mass production system. Professor Taylor's college is not the ideal. He does not, for instance, mention such vital necessities as the elimination of...
Nevertheless, the grades determined by these two very different methods are used as bases of comparison, as indices of efficiency. Honors are awarded for specified numbers of high marks; probation befalls if certain average grades are not maintained. An A is fallaciously assumed to represent a definite standard of attainment...
Thus far, the path of the critic has been smooth. But the question, what uniform basis can be employed, is not easy to answer. For most subjects, however, the absolute, standard can be eliminated at once--it is utterly inapplicable. This leaves only the relative grading--which is equally inapplicable...