Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...body of his report Mr. Bingham holds out a somewhat vague but nevertheless encouraging promise for a new gymnasium and swimming pool, and further tennis courts and field space, all of which are necessary material adjusts to a successful cuimination of "Athletics for All". Surely, however, there would be a contradiction in the administration of this policy if there was any serious development of his suggestion about "the possibility of constructing a new stadium." The money expended in such an enormous undertaking has more logical uses in a university which has declared so often its loyalty to intramural development...
...unsaid which must be said sooner or later. It does not quite penetrate to the fundamentals of the athletic problem. Because it comes from the man upon whom Harvard has rightly staked the solution of that problem it is disappointing judged by any other standard than that of a somewhat over cautions step by step advance...
Coming so soon after the recent unpleasantness in Harvard Square, it is comforting to read that Oxford has lately been the scene of a somewhat similar loss of dignity. Though there is no indication that the activities of the Bullingdon Club received the attentions of the Oxford police--we presume there are such--nevertheless, from all accounts, the environs of Christ Church college, the scene of spirited action, bore the mark of the invader deeply imprinted. It is reported that it will take a dozen workmen a week to repair the damage wrought by members of the Bullingdon Club...
...students more time for personal investigation and research as well as more time to prepare for examinations. The plan is used in English universities, but there it is a product or evolution, and whether or not it will succeed when superimposed on an educational system which has previously been somewhat paternalistic must be shown by experiment...
...reasoning behind such a development runs somewhat as follows: Tutorial systems are expensive. They require larger endowments than the average college is willing or able to obtain. They are therefore re-named Honors courses, narrowly limited in number to the highest grade students. The bulk of the undergraduate body continues under the old plan. Against this stabling together of the old with the new arise two different protests. John H. McDill writes to the Yale Daily News advocating "an enlarged system of honors", through which "More than the present limited few undergraduates would be enabled to engage in serious, intensive...