Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to a natural design. It was arranged for all men living in one entry to eat together, the purposes being to make contacts between these students possible. The plan because it was based on so artificial a segregation was highly unsatisfactory to the students and met with negligible success...
With three games behind them Eddie Casey's football men have swung head on into the tough part of the 1934 football schedule. Brown and Holy Cross have been met with a 50-50 record of success and failure. In the next three weeks Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army invade the Stadium on successive weekends. That's about as hard a stretch of five games as any Eastern college has on its docket...
...before examinations is up before an administration board, and the students and faculty are hurling pro and con arguments at each other. The plan is in effect at Yale and Dartmouth, and the replies of the editors of dailies at those institutions to the Spectator's query concerning its success was answered in the affirmative...
...Pennsylvania, we feel the plan should be adopted for the Wharton School and College, at least. To the objection that the period would cause procrastination and cramming, we point to its success at Yale and Dartmouth. The objecting faculty members at Columbia were drawing conclusions from observations of a small group of college men who can procrastinate and cram without help of a reading period. The Pennsylvanian...
Experimentation along these lines at Harvard where both students and the faculty have high standards could well point the way to a more thorough education in the big universities throughout the country. Regardless of the errors which may be committed along the way, success would make colleges more potent factors in preparing men for their later life...