Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old former Student Council President and Second Marshal of his class, who also earned letters in track and cross country while in college, will be the third head of the middle-western country day school...
...order to graduate from Hiram, the student must take part in athletics for two years and pass skill tests in a whole variety of team and individual indoor and outdoor, sports. Football, baseball, basketball, tennis, etc. are of course included; so is wrestling...
...Hiram year is divided into nine-week quarters during which each student takes one "intensive" and one "running course." Whether or not this "running course" is really running or just another wrestling bout is a little hard to understand...
...undoubtedly in recognition of the prime importance of prose composition, as well as the deplorable deficiency of the average student in its mastery, that the Faculty Council has bestowed new dignity upon much-maligned English A. Hitherto the course has been a fifth leg, an extra burden which less fortunate Freshmen were forced to bear like a vestigial organ. Now, decrees the Council, it shall count toward a degree, More important than this, its exemption requirements have been raised, so that a considerable increase in the percentage of first year men taking the course is to be expected...
...object toward which these steps are directed is, of course, admirable. But the steps themselves are unsatisfactory in their failure to go far enough. It is not necessary that every student take English A. But it is ideal that every student take some composition course during his college career, if not, by compulsion, at least by strong recommendation. Composition cuts across fields of concentration--in later years it may be as useful to the chemist as to the English concentrator--and hence such a procedure would not be vulnerable to the usual criticisms of regimentation and preplanning...