Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which few men do now because they get no credit from their section men--and to ability to think rather than to write down details learned from memory, more men of broad intellectual sympathies might be found in First Group, and greater honor might be paid to the high stand scholars. Even if the trouble does lie in American life principally, a change will come sometime; but it is the colleges which must lead in that change. The popularity of scholarship at Harvard cannot come in a day, but it might be materially increased by a broader definition...
...what gives the diploma acceptance among strangers as evidence of academic attainments. Harvard diplomas are presented at universities in all parts of the world and are often a prerequisite of registration in medicine or at the bar. They announce to all concerned that the degrees for which they stand are based upon examinations which the University guarantees as hav- ing been properly conducted. This guarantee is not the only element in the value of the diploma but it is an important...
...present all the men who are taking laboratory courses in Chemistry are compelled to stand from one to four hours at a stretch at the desks in Boylston and Dane Halls. It is needless to say that such an arrangement not only tires the aspiring chemists physically, but renders them mentally incapable of their best work. The Physics laboratories have stools for the comfort of the men who use them. It seems hardly fair that the most simple necessities for sustained labor should not be provided equally in all parts of the University; and we wish to call the attention...
...members of the CRIMSON staff have been in pursuit of news for 38 years and hope to bear home the remains of a little "news" of a blue hue on a crimson shield this evening. The Yale pushers of the pen and ticklers of the type-writer keys should stand a better chance of winning, however, as they have already met and defeated the Eli burners of the midnight oil, alias, Phi Beta Kapparites, while the CRIMSON representatives enter the game with no further asset than their natural ability and new uniforms...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society will hold its second annual international aviation meet at the Harvard Aviation Field, Atlantic, from August 26 to September 4. Plans are now being drawn for a new grand stand, and the tent hangars will be replaced by wooden or corrugated iron ones. The parking spaces for automobiles will be permanently fenced in, and the start greatly improved over its condition of last year...