Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public schools in the past have been singularly outside the ken of college men, students, graduates, and professors alike, for the reason that students have come to college very largely from private schools or endowed academies. It is only recently that Harvard has, been receiving fully half her Freshmen from the free public high schools. In the state universities and those where entrance is by certificate instead of by examination, the proportion of students from the free public schools is very much greater. The result is that these schools are rapidly becoming of much more interest to college...
...Great American University is as mythical as the Great American Novel. The longer we have to wait for it, the less confidently do we expect it. But that is no reason for not making our universities more national than they are now. Princeton is not the only such institution to realize the advantage, if not indeed the necesisty, of enlisting all parts of the country under her banner. New York Evening Post...
...passed in view of the fact that many athletes would otherwise be unjustly prevented from participating in sports when they returned to college this year. The resolution is excellent in principle, but such contemplated action would throw open the field of university competition to all Freshmen. For this reason the situation needs careful scrutiny...
...increase of such practice might with reason, lead to only one thing, the closing of the Farnsworth Room. The many may have to suffer for the crimes of the few. Let us hope that those who are thus abusing the privileges of the room will desist, and those who are glad to use the room legitimately will help bring the offenders to light...
...being made along practically the old lines and it is altogether probable that the same will be true of next autumn's fooball schedule when the time comes. Educators have had a good deal to say about the excellent opportunity for reform which was afforded the colleges by reason of the suspension of intercollegiate athletics during the war; but during this period no satisfactory substitute for the old plan of intensive sport was devised, at least nothing satisfactory to the undergraduates...