Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After spending several months in making the most thorough study of athletic conditions undertaken at the University, a special committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has submitted to the Faculty a detailed report which shows that the players on athletic teams have a fairly good average record in scholarship and attendance, but that the team managers and candidates for managerships not only give to athletics twice as much time as the players, but have a much lower scholarship standard and cut their classes more often...
...gets the full advantage of the Oxford tutorial system, and a sense of collaboration and competition with one's fellows in the same job which is hard for us here to realize. It is choosing the best and the most distinctive training that Oxford can offer, and such thorough grounding in a particular field broadly conceived, as none of us can afford to scorn. With energy and ambition one can take "schools"--the final honor examinations--at the end of two years, and devote the remaining year to research...
...Irish Cause under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of the Intercollegiate Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic. So far no effort has been made at Harvard to present to the student body the issues involved. It is our conviction that there is need of a thorough discussion under academic control...
...result of these factors, the majority of the places offered by the Appointment Office are taken by the holders of the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. These fill the higher-grade positions for which a thorough university training is essential. Figures are not at present available to show the connection between the degree held and the position secured in each case; but the increase in the number of persons entering the educational field (11 percent) is roughly proportional to the growth of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The general conclusion to be arrived...
...purpose for the establishment of this corps was to give the younger officers thorough grounding in all phases of consular work and by assignment to the larger and more important offices and contact with the broader problems which confront the Service. In this way they are exceptionally well trained for the grades which they are later to receive. The examinations for Consular Assistants and Student Interpreters, however, are less exacting...