Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minor sports teams played Yale on Saturday and within the next two weeks the others will have completed their schedules with similar encounters. It is quite possible that the undergraduate committee which has been appointed to investigate the question of a possible revision of minor sports awards, and which is incidentally made up of four seniors connected with major sports, may turn to the outcome of these contests as one of the few concrete indications of whether the present conditions merit change...
...such a definite policy and with the gradual increase in equipment of minor sports some revision in the status of awards towards the adoption of a uniform not dependent on the season's scores should be forthcoming at the June meeting of the Athletic Committee which will consider the question...
...couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso: "In the opinion of the House there is a question as to whether 'the Senate's Debenture Plan' contravenes ... the Constitution and is an infringement on the rights and privileges of the House. The action of the House in this instance shall not be deemed to be a precedent." The House agreed, 249 to 119. The Democrats tried vainly...
...contention that course examinations which require pure memorizing are of little permanent value. Nor will they deny that students can often accomplish more toward attaining a grasp of a given field of study through independent reading than through the fulfillment of an inelastic set of course requirements. The question which arises in connection with Mr. Fairbank's letter, printed else-where in these columns, is how far present conditions at Harvard over-emphasize course work and what benefits could be derived from a further reduction in course requirements--particularly those of Seniors...
...sufficient number of truly stimulating lectures in any department to make an entire abolition of course attendance undesirable. Whether or not the course reductions at present allowed Seniors who are candidates for honors has struck the proper balance between course and tutorial work in perhaps open to question. But there is certainly little reason to suppose that a general reduction in course requirements at Harvard would be a widespread blessing...