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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suggestion and advice has been poured upon the members of the Rules Committee since the end of the last season that we consider it quite unnecessary to make public now any new ideas for the reform of football. One tangible fact may be gleaned from all that has been written on the subject,--that the demand for change is general and insistent. The Rules Committee is an exceptionally competent body, and may safely be trusted to legislate only for the lasting good of the game...
Students, who, at the beginning of the present academic year, had completed the requirements for the degree of A. B. or S.B., and who are now on leave of absence for the year, may become candidates for their degrees at mid-year, if they give written notice to the Recorder before this evening...
...manifestly impossible to conduct most courses without prescribed reading, and it is, furthermore, impossible for the instructor to see that the prescribed reading is done, without some mechanical test to that end. This test commonly takes the form of a short report written outside the class, and generally covering a wide field with no specific object stated...
...subject. The line between fair and unfair work becomes exceedingly vague, because without copying a report a man may write his own on the basis of another's work, without doing it himself. Much criticism is now being heard concerning the quantity of theses which must be written, but these, at least, demand a certain amount of protracted thought, which is far more than can be said of the reports...
...method of testing prescribed reading, if it is to be anything more than a farce, it seems desirable that the system of conferences and classroom papers already extensively in use should be further extended, and should, so far as possible, supplant this mechanical writing of unprofitable reports. A paper written in class has at least the merit of demanding some general knowledge of the subject, and an oral conference serves both to clarify and fix the ideas of the student, and to assure the instructor that the student is taking an intelligent interest in his work...