Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...without being subjected to a chance assignment that may separate them and put them alongside men with whom they have no common interest or are not in the least congenial. Hollis and Stoughton have very good conveniences on every floor, while Holworthy has always proved so popular as to show that men are willing to overlook its slight disadvantages for the greater benefits that result from rooming there. If the number of applications warrant it, the College will modernize the middle entry of Thayer, which has the additional advantage of a large Living Room, or will turn over...
...team without a proper tank that the loss of one or two men is almost sure to prevent its winning, but it is almost impossible for the men that do come out to get the necessary practice and training. We call attention to this lamentable situation, not only to show that the swimming team is made to labor at a disadvantage, but because it is another instance of the sad need of a new gymnasium and tank...
...larval stage. The life of the larva is two years. It makes its way into the tree by boring through the bark where it may make great furrows in the growing layer, thus girding the limbs, or it may burrow deeper into the heart of the tree. Its burrows show that it migrates often, from one part of a branch to another or to a different one altogether...
...have recently been published in the various college papers, leave no reasonable doubt that a change in the Harvard entrance requirements is not only desirable but urgent. Both the examiners and the headmasters of preparatory schools are of this opinion. Moreover, all the reports received by the investigating committee show that a change is wise. One argument, however, has been too little emphasized--the failure of the present system to carry out its professed purpose...
...last point, the testing of fitness for admission, the desideratum doubtless is that all schools men should be admitted who by their ability to keep up to Harvard requirements show that they can profit by Harvard instruction. That the entrance examinations, whether given by Harvard or by the Board, sometimes fail to test this fitness properly, is as evident as that a course examinations may sometimes fail to measure accurately the work done by a student. The Harvard committee on admission, through its own examinations and those of the College Board, is adjusting as equitably as it can the difficult...