Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Among the many pleasures and exercises with which Harvard men divert themselves, polo is one about which the students at large know but little. If anyone of an inquiring turn of mind should walk out on Brattle Street for about half an hour, he would come to the grounds of the Harvard Polo Club. There is nothing magnificent about them, no immense grand stand, but only a shed which gives shelter in rainy weather to the players and the ponies alike. The field is about twice the size of Jarvis, and is covered with a good turf. The situation...
...bicycle club will take a moonlight run to-morrow night to Auburndale, where they will take dinner at the Woodlawn Park Hotel and return. The run will be very enjoyable, and it is to be hoped a large number of wheelmen will turn...
...more or less material for discussion, and student government at times of great rejoicing will also be a fruitful theme. If, however, after having disposed of the pressing demands of these two, the conference becomes subject to ennui, there is another field of labor to which the members can turn with profit. This field is none other than the old marking system now in vogue, and the evils of cramming and cribbing that are inseparably connected with it. A comparison of the different methods for marking used in American colleges and a discussion of the merits of each would...
...seriously questioned whether this is exactly the kind of result which it is desirable for a university to turn out. We want men who can think for themselves; not men with an unlimited capacity of cramming down other people's statements, and producing what is called a brilliant set of answers. If a man really knows a subject, he is pretty certain to do badly when examined in it. A thorough knowledge of a subject absolutely prevents it from being compressed into the answers to a few questions. It is only the smatterer who can do this; the real student...
...foreign tour" in the game against Yale, Princeton, and Amherst. This afternoon will be the first chance which the college has had since the return of the nine to note the improvement made by the team in its play. It may be unnecessary to urge the students to turn out in full numbers, for it is probable that the interest in the game will be sufficient to attract the entire college to Holmes; yet, aside from this, the undergraduates ought to improve this opportunity to testify by their presence and cheers the appreciation in which the past work...