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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...section meeting, which, in the past, has been no exception to the rule that weekly tests are rife with dishonesty, the honor system has eliminated practically every trace of underhanded methods. The opponents of the reform must admit that this is something of a gain. Mechanical, as they say the means are, they cannot deny that the end is reached. Better so-called mechanical methods than the former prevalent cheating...
...present all the men who are taking laboratory courses in Chemistry are compelled to stand from one to four hours at a stretch at the desks in Boylston and Dane Halls. It is needless to say that such an arrangement not only tires the aspiring chemists physically, but renders them mentally incapable of their best work. The Physics laboratories have stools for the comfort of the men who use them. It seems hardly fair that the most simple necessities for sustained labor should not be provided equally in all parts of the University; and we wish to call the attention...
...strange to say, in spite of this great popularity, the equipment provided for, and the care bestowed on, tennis is far less than that given the other minor sports. To procure a court on either Jarvis or Soliders Field from May 1 to Class Day, between the hours of 3 and 5 o'clock, is practically impossible. On the warmer days 4 o'clock sees at least thirty men waiting for a chance to play. The same situation maintains from October 1 until the frost comes. Moreover, on afternoons when there is a strong breeze from the prevailing quarter, clouds...
...will not admit that the honor System is a moral advance on the present method of proctor supervision. The reason that it has not been universally adopted is because many consider it too Utopian an advance, too impracticable for the present state of undergraduate morals; it is, say its opponents, a system which puts too much strain on the student; the average man is not yet fit to bear the responsibility. Still, they admit its value in theory. Therefore, being, as it is, an advance on an ancient and artificial scheme to prevent cheating, it should immediately recommend itself...
...colleges to drop compulsory chapel attendance and religious study. This fact is greatly to be commended, but like many desirable things, it also may lead to extremes. One of these is the very obvious lack of knowledge and indifference to the English Bible. It would be no exaggeration to say that the average undergraduate can discuss the poetry of Swinburne and Rossetti more intelligently than he can the Testaments. This apparent ignorance is not due to irreligion. On the contrary, Harvard is a bulwark of that true religion which has for its aim,--to use the words...