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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposed will fill a want among track enthusiasts. In support of this it is pointed out that in the last two years it has been noticeable that champions have failed to repeat their title winning feats in succeeding annual meets. A few years ago it was not uncommon for an athlete to capture first place in some event in which he specialized for two or even three years in succession. In direct contrast to this is the fact that not a single intercollegiate champion of 1913 won an undisputed right to first place in 1914. J. B. Camp...
...Harvard team played in mid-season form both in the field and at bat, Thirteen hits in the first game of the year marks one of the best beginnings in the history of Harvard baseball. Besides this only two errors in the field were made which is a distinctly uncommon occurrence at the opening of a college baseball season...
...uncommon to hear a man in his third or fourth year at Harvard say that he has never spoken so much as a word to some of his professors. Such cases are often cited as examples of the traditional. Harvard in-difference and are received with horror by those unfamiliar with conditions in a modern university. It is a misconception to take such statements as indicative of an impassible breach between the students and the Faculty, for the only courses in which a man may fall to come into contact with a professor are those large elementary lecture courses which...
...present board of editors of the Advocate continues to show uncommon enterprise and no small amount of journalistic instinct. The current issue may not represent a type which we should like to see become permanent, but is what the ready-made clothing advertisements mean by "different", when they write the word in quotation marks. It has two articles which especially show that the editors are wide-awake. One is an allegory on Harvard College by Benjamin Franklin, which is as far from flattering as it is near the truth as to the conditions of our own day. The other...
...objection is that the examinations begin on the first day after regular exercises close, and owing to the press of daily work, a man who has an examination on the first day cannot thoroughly review, is subjected to an unfair strain, and cannot do himself justice. It is not uncommon for a man to have several or all of his examinations in the first few days, and all his work is affected. Some years ago, one day for study was granted before examinations began, but with the great increase in the number of courses and students, this custom was abandoned...