Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student of a sister University was recently heard to declare that he hated Harvard men. Being asked to state the reasons which led him to hold this opinion, he said that they dressed too confounded well: and with this frank confession of jealousy the conversation came...
...margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...
Actual work in college is undoubtedly the best test of a student's qualification to remain there. Insofar as their physical limitations will permit colleges would do well permit colleges would do well to follow the Law School in establishing admissions standards within rather than at the beginning of the Freshman year...
...apathy was so evident in the Bowl that Yale's old grads will be insisting that something be done about it. Probably the first step will be on to have the student body psychoanalyzed and the get some morale experts on the job. As one Yale old grad put it. "Why they acted as though it were only a football game...
...Harvard men to the University football team. A season that was already satisfactory in all that hard-played football could accomplish has been given by them the nice touch of climax. Harvard never asks of the team more than the first of these things; to have received both leaves student and alumnus with full hands...