Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dormitory on Boylston street between Winthrop and Mt. Auburn streets is now nearly completed. It is four stories high and is constructed of red brick with a limestone finish. The work that still remains to be done is almost entirely on the interior of the building, which will be finished in quartered oak with mosaic tile floors. There are sixteen suites, two double and two single on each floor, all to be equipped with electricity and steam heat. The suites will be leased in March, but they will not be ready for occupancy until next September...
...greater number of public schools to prepare pupils for admission, masters of the schools which have sent candidates, have been invited to conferences held in 1897 and 1901. The masters agreed in 1897 that the increase in requirements would be beneficial; and at the conference in 1901 were still in favor of a gradual increase. To meet the difficulty of insufficient equipment which many high schools encounter in preparing pupils in certain branches of science, the Lawrence Scientific School has been trying an interesting experiment with "specials." Admission to the class of specials is restricted to those who wish...
About 125 candidates for the Freshman and University crews are now working daily at the University boat house. The Freshmen have been graded to a certain extent and are being coached in squads by H. Bullard '02, E. E. Smith '02, and R. S. Francis '02. Although it is still too early for a definite idea of the strength of the candidates, they have at least the weight and ability of the average Freshman crews of former years. At present, the men follow the usual routine of work--practsising on the machines and exercises, and ending with a half-mile...
...such that it can be performed in a wholesome and profitable manner, without imposing too great a strain either on the students themselves or on the standard of the courses which they take. At the same time a large majority of our students, from preference or force of tradition, still adhere to the four years' course . . . Such being the case, it is highly desirable that each of the two courses should stand, as far as possible, on its own intrinsic merits, neither favored nor discriminated against by technical regulations. Each, in its own way, may be expected to have attractions...
...American colleges and universities could satisfy themselves that success in athletics is not indispensable to college growth, or better still, be persuaded that too much attention to athletic sports, or a bad tone in regard to them, hinders college growth, there would probably result a great improvement in the spirit in which intercollegiate contests are conducted: they would come to be regarded as the by-play they really are, and would be carried on in a sportsmanlike way as interesting and profitable amusements...