Word: regarder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton has decided to exclude graduate students from the University debating teams, thereby giving undergraduates a better chance of making the teams than if they had to compete against older men. In this move, Princeton has acted without regard to Harvard, where graduates are still eligible, though the plan of excluding them has been spoken of. It is hoped that Harvard. Yale, and Princeton can come to an agreement on the subject at the conference later in the year...
Before we speak of the theory of this policy with regard to English Composition, it would be wise to run over briefly the history of the study at Harvard and to fix several points in mind. In the first place, Sophomore Composition some years ago was a prescribed course. Then, when a later ruling did away with its prescription, allowing Sophomores to elect English 22 or 31 if they chose, the enrollment in Composition among Sophomores fell off appreciably, showing that some men had no desire to continue their Freshman work in English A. But the registration in the Sophomore...
...reason for the complete reversal of policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment...
...former energy. The matter comes forcibly to mind with the coming of the winter months when outdoor exercise grows more and more difficult. A Freshman committee could be appointed with a few hours of careful thought, and we might in a few weeks know Nineteen-Seventeen's feelings with regard to the project...
...boys themselves. They have their own bank and other institutions, while the laws are made and carried out by officers chosen from among them. There are, to be sure, teachers to carry on the work of instruction, but aside from the actual discharge of their duties in this regard, they have no control over matters pertaining to the "City...