Word: statement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...account of some misunderstanding incident to the transferral of the functions of the Council of Federated Clubs to the Student Council Committee on Organizations, the latter presents the following statement...
...committee has now on file a list of officers of the 47 so-called "interest" clubs--like the Cosmopolitan Club, Musical Clubs, Debating Council--together with a short statement about each. Next year this information will be kept in the Union...
...recent boating accident that resulted in the drowning of a Freshman emphasizes the need of more stringent rules governing the use of boats at the University boathouses. Under the rules now in vogue a student must sign a statement that he can swim at least 150 yards before he is allowed to use a boat. This is a very perfunctory duty and is thoroughly inadequate, as the recent accident shows. The ability to swim the required distance is entirely theoretical with no small percentage of those who go out on the river. To be sure one who gives his word...
...cribbing is due to the puerile notion that the very presence of the proctor is an invitation to circumvent him, I doubt whether the honor system would result in any greater maturity of moral conceptions. To sign a statement at the end of an examination paper to the effect that he has not cheated should be infinitely more humiliating to a gentleman than to sit within view of a proctor, yet in some colleges, at least, the honor system encourages the view that such a signature is more binding than writing the name at the head of the paper...
...statement in your columns giving the statistical cost of courses of instruction states that "no definite plan for using these figures has yet been evolved, but it is likely that their value to the Administrative Board will be great." Assuming that Board to be governed by a sense of logic, their value lies clearly enough in the only conclusion those figures as presented can lead to, -- which is this: that the ideal course must be one given by an instructor at $ 1000 to 1000 students,--giving a figure of instruction of $11. Then all will be on a basis that...