Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of the balloting which was held in Memorial Hall on Friday and Saturday of last week with regard to the question of allowing smoking in the Hall, 323 votes were cast in favor of the plan, 177 opposed, and 66 indifferent. In accordance with its original plan the University Dining Council will meet this morning to come to a decision taking in-to consideration the result of this vote and the question in all its bearings...
...interesting controversy has been carried on for the past month in the columns of the Bulletin, in regard to the suitability of having the names of Harvard men who died in the service of the Confederacy during the Civil War carved on the tablets in Memorial Hall. The suggestion was made by the Bulletin itself in an editorial which mentioned a southern graduate as speaker for Memorial Day, and the Discussion has been kept up by letters from several graduates...
...educational history of Japan since 1868 began by the opening of schools closed directly after the fall of the Shogun. In 1871 it was announced that education was to be universal without regard to class or sex. Soon afterward, students were sent abroad and foreign teachers were employed in all departments. But in spite of mistakes and failures a working system has been established which has brought about good results...
...regard to making the requirements uniform with the preparation which most schools offer, the most important step has been the acceptance of all credits given by the College Entrance Examination Board on the same basis with credits given by Harvard examiners. Many schools are obliged to give preparation for a dozen or more colleges in the same classes, but so long as the Board examinations offer a common avenue from the many schools to the many colleges the difficulty of the transition is reduced to a minimum. Except in a limited number of schools which send nearly all their boys...
...minor changes suggested by the Football Rules Committee that is worth serious consideration is the one in regard to a change in the length of the game from thirty-five to thirty minutes and the division of the periods. It is suggested that the game be split into four periods of fifteen minutes each, with five-minute intermissions between the first and second, and between the third and fourth periods. Such a change would give much less occasion for players to become exhausted or "groggy." The two extra five-minute intermissions would give exhausted or injured players a chance...