Word: west
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the University Cross-Country team yesterday afternoon Amos Roberts Bancroft '17, of West Newton, was elected captain for the 1916 season. Bancroft prepared at West Newton High School and ran on his Freshman team. That year he finished with the leaders in every run and in the race with Providence Tech, he led his team in. Last year he was prevented from running because of difficulty with the office. In the early part of the past season he did brilliant work, being the first man over the line for the University in the Cornell race. Unfortunately an attack...
...coming to Harvard, because admission to the local western colleges requires only a certificate. The factor of inaccessibility has been largely obviated by the decision to accept Board examinations. Nevertheless, as long as examinations of any sort are required, Harvard will be at a distinct disadvantage throughout the West. The adoption of the New Plan examinations, though an excellent step so far as it goes, does not completely cope with the situation, because the mere existence of examinations whose requirements are couched in the formidable language of the Catalogue is enough to strike terror to the hearts of those...
There is no reason why the College cannot select the best preparatory schools of the West and accept their certificate for a small fraction, comprising the best scholars of their graduating classes. Such a procedure might very readily have the effect of actually making an examination-less admission to Harvard the goal for scholastic competition in many schools. And it would in all probability attract a number of the most desirable...
...matter of fact, however, the men who stand highest in their high school classes in the West are usually better students than a great many eastern men who tutor their way into the College. Under the present system mediocre men who have the advantage of the elaborate tutoring system of the East are preferred to more capable men in the West and South who have no such props...
...Harvard College man should take note that this national influence is the work mainly of the Graduate Schools; and that it is they and not the College which is national in the domiciles of its members. Only some 400 out of more than 2500 undergraduates come from places west or south of Pennsylvania, while only about 150 live west of the Mississippi. More than half the undergraduate enrollment is from Massachusetts alone...