Word: scholasticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But there is one unfortunate set of statistics which reveals that 36 percent of the dropped and readmitted Freshmen last year received unsatisfactory grades as compared to 13 percent of the new men who failed to meet the requirements. Of these, the readmitted men had much lower records than the...
All this restriction is doubtless necessary but the question of admission is at best a feeble half of the whole problem of the dropped and readmitted Freshmen. The failure of this year's stringent entrance policy may be due to an unavoidable fluctuation but most on servers feel that as...
Enough has been said on this subject to indicate clearly that the present system's chief failing lies in the fact that a period of two weeks is not adequate for satisfactory preparation in required reading and writing for five courses. This unintentional excess of work can only bring deficient...
In addition to the question of finances, Mr. Bingham discusses the working out of the program of House sports, the problem of non-House residents in athletics, and the scholastic records of intercollegiate athletics.
During this year the development of the intramural athletic program has been extremely interesting and highly progressive. Just as Mr. Lowell has never doubted that the "House Plan" would be a scholastic success, because the central idea of the House is the Tutor, so the Athletic Association is equally certain...