Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...justice of such a proceeding. Is it fair to force students to attend lectures if they do not find the lectures worth attending? It may not be 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...
...could be more easily obtained if all prescribed reading were done and tested before, instead of after, the lectures covering the same ground. Until some such method is adopted, by which lecturers may be enabled to tell their students things of real value to them, the undergraduate attitude with regard to the cutting of certain courses can not be considered wholly unreasonable...
...Commissioner finds that the question in regard to the exemption of the property of educational institutions is much more difficult of solution. There are in the state thirteen cities and towns in which the percentage of land owned by educational institutions equals or exceeds three percent. These places present a variety of tax rates, ranging from $10 a thousand up as high as $22.50. They present, also, a variety of percentages of indebtedness ranging from zero in the case of Wilbraham to .076 in the case of Cambridge...
...last lingering doubts which the CRIMSON hockey team may have felt in regard to its own prowess were forever dispelled by the game with Lampy on Saturday. As the CRIMSON confidently predicted, the game was an uneven affair; the School for Future Journalists won by a 5 to 0 score. The Lampoon was generously allowed to use eight men, among them several semi-professionals, but the CRIMSON team, playing in relays and with perfect passing and team-work, found no difficulty in locating the goal...
...order to correct several erroneous statements which have appeared in regard to undergraduates who have made the highest strength tests this year, the CRIMSON prints this morning the records of the ten men who have made the highest totals. In fairness to these men it should be stated that the tests are now merely qualifying tests, and may or may not represent the utmost that...