Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There has been a considerable discussion lately of what the average student gets out of College and how to exclude those who will receive the least. A suggestion, probably impractical...
...Without the institution of degrees men would not come to College merely for that objective, as a stepping stone. At the end of any reasonable period of time a student so desiring could request an examination in any field or fields chosen by him, and after discussing his work with the examiner or examiners; the work proving satisfactory, he could be given a certificate of number of years resident and not accomplishment. Perhaps a two or three year minimum residence might be required except in the case of more or less advanced work...
...Student orchestras, glee clubs, and entertainers from the four different institutions provided entertainment enroute. Some of the students were permitted to leave after a seven day cruise, others taking full benefit of the three weeks...
...have been long delayed by mechanical difficulties. Outside the military science units on Soldiers Field has long stood the polo practise cage, its purpose conjectual only to the imaginative. The scarred and single symbol that polo is played at Harvard, it has been also the symbol, like the graduate student who swam the Charles in March, of an inadequacy...
Centralization of University athletics in the regions which, if not cis-Charles, are at least tangental to them, stopped being an idea and became a necessity when a new student attitude toward study was won. The undergraduate has little time for diversion, he never had less time to travel to it. No sport can with justice eat up two hours a day in travel and preparation. It is possible for the mountain to be deluded into going to Mahomet, but is is fanatic...