Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced last night, by Captain F. D. Sharp, coach of the University polo team, that the Harvard riders will enter the second Indoor Intercollegiate Polo Tournament, to be held in Squadron A Armory, of New York City. Although no definite date has been set, the event will probably take place in the early part of April...
...acclaim with which the Oregon system met in the recent Dartmouth-Harvard debate tent an impetus to its general adaptation by debating circles. Under the new procedure the first man on each team sets forth the arguments of his side. The second man questions the opposition, and one member of each team then summarizes the disputations which favor his contentions. The audience render the verdict after quizzing the participants to their own satisfaction. By combining the best elements of the Oxford system of free discussion and the present unsatisfactory American procedure, this most recent innovation in the sphere of intercollegiate...
...assistant professors have been granted leaves of absence during all or part of the academic year 1929-30, according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and A. E. Norton '04, professor of Mechanical Engineering, will be on leave during the second half of 1929-30, while Professor H. T. Stetson, of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory is to go on leave for the entire academic year...
With the proper understanding of the inherently smoke-screen quality of the first named reason for the steady growth of "unsatisfactories" in Dean Hanford's report, the necessity for close attention to the second and third reasons comes squarely into its own. No doubt more stringency in the treatment of men who have once failed of promotion would result in an immediate improvement in the appearance of Freshman standing, but by so doing the symptoms of disease are removed. It is the cause of the symptoms that requires earnest searching and thoughtful treatment...
Already the matter of September admission second in importance in this part of the Dean's report, has been discussed and disposed of. Apparently there is nothing left but a consideration of Mr. Hanford's class number three, that of men submitting low admission records. Crucial point that it is, this problem deserves all possible attention; all other explanations of the phenomenon of unsatisfactory college work lead inevitably to the advisability of admitting men with dubious records. No scurrying about after secondary effects should be allowed to distract the attention of those committed to seeing that the right...