Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hitherto a student who might have desired to take a modern language in his final year of preparatory school changed instead to a science or a history which would enable him to gain an extra point. With the recent change in regulations the student is not deprived of the continuity of his study of French or German, and high schools are encouraged to give more thorough courses in these languages. Four years of Greek and Latin have always been acceptable for entrance; the change puts the important modern languages on equal basis with the classics...
...consideration of the Junior divisional examination only as an occasion by the absence of any records of the results. No marks are kept, so that a grade just above the passing line serves the purpose as well as a mark of distinction. Where this is the case, few will take the trouble to learn more than is necessary, and veterans of examinations have a way of knowing how much is necessary...
...Roberts is right, there are a great many things wrong with Harvard. The traditional atmosphere is a take, the College is over-infested with a queer specimen called a "dean," Harvard men are enthusiastically indifferent and "run screaming" when attempts are made to penetrate this false cloak of self-consciousness, the names of all clubs are asinine, the College is run by temperamental Student Council Reports, graduate school students are social pariahs because they have lost "the true Harvard bloom", and, most significant of all, the "cozy collegetts" (Mr. Roberts' nomenclature for the units of the House plan) constitute...
...serious attention to his lurid pronunciamento, in which a few good points are so mingled with the numerous bad ones as to show the author was not in a position to distinguish between them. He points out that Harvard men are immune from the literature and motion pictures which take the American undergraduate for their subject. It is all for the best even though the medium is the genial and appreciative Mr. Roberts...
Tonight from 7 to 9 o'clock all men interested will have a last opportunity to try out for the several vacancies in the University instrumental Clubs. The try-outs will take place in Paine Hall of the Music Building. All successful candidates will be eligible to participate in the many spring concerts, the Portland and New York appearances offering weekend trips...