Word: rule
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most courses the classes will meet five times a week during the six weeks of the term, and as a rule each student takes only one course; but there are certain combinations of two courses which may be taken together. The class-room periods vary from one to two hours in courses conducted by lectures or recitations, but are usually longer in drawing or laboratory courses...
...CRIMSON has asked for information about the rule limiting participation in intercollegiate athletics to two periods of sport in any one academic year...
...rule was passed in October, 1904. Although absent at the time, the writer believes that he is correct in assuming that the regulation simply indicates the unwillingness of the Athletic Committee to countenance the continuous devotion to athletics and the amount of absenteeism involved in membership on some University athletic team during the whole University year. The rule applies only to intercollegiate, not to interclass or intramural contests, and was not designed to prevent men from taking any amount of exercise desired, or even from indulging in continuous training...
...some other way which may equally hinder him from study, or from embracing the many opportunities for other serious occupations. It might similarly be maintained that the restrictions of "probation" are useless because they do not prevent a student from spending his time in various other unchecked diversions. That rule implies chiefly that the University is not to be represented publicly by men who are not doing satisfactory work...
...suggestion in the CRIMSON that men spend a good deal of time on second teams and scrub teams, and that the rule, to be more effective, should be extended to cover such cases, has some weight in view of the growth of the out-of-town schedules for second teams. The whole question seems primarily a matter for the Faculty to decide. Perhaps a reference to the Administrative Board for approval or disapproval might be advisable. In the reorganization of athletics which is under way, it should be seriously considered whether all matters affecting scholarship should not, as at Cornell...