Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year for the first time the 440 yard dash will be run in two separate races, the places to be determined by comparative times. In the past a large number of entries has resulted in serious crowding on the track. All events of shorter distance will be run off in the usual three heats, trials, semi-finals, and finals...
...obvious educational importance as the permanence of collegiate training. Departures from policy of this nature are all the more insidious since they fail to carry the warning found in less selective journals which usually run this sort of material under some such head as "thirty seconds a day with serious thinkers...
Unsatisfactory though the recent phase of the Club's productions may have been, it was at least nearer maintaining a serious and meritorious drama at Harvard than the latest policy can be. Admitted that the motive of staging dramas for the first time is commendable, and that the box-office approves of the show in syncopated measure, there must be some recourse other than that of this spring. The value of the Club that could give American premieres in the same season of plays by Goldoni and Capek has been immense. It need not descend to a stereotyped school...
...true that today's statement of the modification of the language requirements affects only the man well enough equipped in school to meet the University's reading examinations. Although the new rule takes no serious burden from anyone's shoulders, it does show the decided position of the faculty in encouraging the completion of elementary work in school. Given time, this policy will reap its reward in Freshmen better able to seize the advantages of college...
...Most of the great leaders and reformers who left an impress upon their own and subsequent generations were not noted for their sense of humor. Moses, Mahomet and Jesus . . . are outstanding examples. The great figures in public life today are, on the whole, very serious-minded...