Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crew on the river, not because there were too few men at the boathouse, but because there were not enough from the "first crew," and the few who were there were unwilling to make up a boat with those who had been rowing on their second crew. For this reason the men have been needlessly missing valuable practice, because of a certain athletic snobbishness. Class spirit cannot grow well under such conditions...
Considering the importance of spring practice this year on account of the changes in the rules and the uncertainties of many of these changes the showing at the first practice yesterday was remarkably poor. There is no reason why from 70 to 100 men should not be on the field daily, for the work lasts but little over an hour and could not interfere seriously with studies even of the men on probation. Men of last year's Freshman squad and second team candidates are especially urged to come...
...Hooper '11; 2, S. A. Sargent '10; bow, R. Whitney '11. Withington, who had been rowing at 4 last week, was absent from Cambridge the first four days of this week. Metcalf, who had been at 3, was out of the boat all week for the same reason. Balch had been tried out last Saturday at bow and had done well but was also unable to row this week because of illness...
...library method." of instruction, which is now in use in the majority of courses at Harvard, was originated by this University, and is undoubtedly a great advance over the former "text-book" system. The present policy of the Library means practically a return to this inferior method. For this reason, it is a backward step and likely in the end to prove far more costly than its monetary saving can justify...
...possible to make all academic lectures attractive, but it should be possible to make them so valuable that the student would regard a cut as a misfortune, rather than as a liberation. It need hardly be said that this feeling is not now prevalent among the undergraduates. The chief reason why so many lectures strike the average student as useless is that he finds in his lecture notes little or nothing that is not better stated in books of reference. Often his notes contain serious errors, due to haste or confusion of mind; more often still they omit the most...