Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., February 9.--Captain Burgess, who has been the mainstay of the hockey team, injured his ankle in the game against Dartmouth so that it is doubtful whether he will be able to play against Harvard on Saturday night. Without him the forward line is noticeably weak. The defence, however, is strong. Murray at point carries the puck well, and York, at goal, has played a consistently spectacular game throughout the season. The Yale seven had no practice today...
...Technology entered into an agreement for co-operative instruction in certain scientific subjects, to be conducted out of the income of the Gordon McKay Endowment. It is generally known that the Harvard Corporation has filed with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts a bill for instructions to determine whether the income from this endowment can be used as the Agreement provides. The general situation may be summarized as follows...
...income shall be expended for any particular department of the University, but Harvard must invest and care for the principal of the fund, expend the income and carry out the purposes of the trust. It may not delegate these duties to any other institution, and the principal question is whether it has done so by the Agreement with Technology...
...Western state university. . . . Elementary questions about the war, such as the location of Gallipoli and Saloniki, the identity of Venizelos, Viviani, Poincare, . . . were presented to certain college classes, with the result that Venizelos appeared as anything from a French general to a Mexican rebel. . . . The Dean of Bowdoin questions whether students of New England colleges are very steady newspaper readers. . . . The trouble is that if the proper names mean nothing, the reading is of limited good. The fault is in the student's own background. All these colleges are maintaining departments in modern history. . . . What are we to think...
...requirement of some supervision of the courses elected by students concentrating in History and Literature. The oral examinations, of doubtful efficacy, are a step in the same direction. And President Lowell suggests in his Report that the departments should supervise the work of men concentrating in their respective fields, whether they are candidates for distinction or not. "All these changes are in a direction away from the mechanical view of education which is the bane of the American system...