Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assistance, established at the University in 1916, and greatly broadened last spring, seems not to have been entirely successful in bringing about the advantages at which it aims. One of its main purposes--to give the student more freedom in his studies and a chance to carry on a certain amount of individual investigation--has been entirely missed, because the faculty has failed to provide any time in which the extra work may be done...
...tutorial system on a sounder basis. To make it successful would mean a diminution in the required classroom routine and a decrease in the number of tests to compensate for the added individual work. Such a change would increase both the opportunity and responsibility of the student. Certain men would no doubt waste extra time given them; they are the same men who absorb as little as possible under the present system. But the ever-increasing number of students who aim to get the most out of their four years at a university would leave Harvard fitted to face...
...committee for the American team has not yet decided as to how many men will represent this country, but there is certain to be a larger United States team than ever before in the history of the games. With regard to the selection of the men, it is understood that a policy similar to that of former years will be followed...
...teaching staff at the Prospect Union for the coming year is now being selected. In accord with the spirit and purpose of the founders of the Union in Central Square, preference will be given, other things being equal, to Harvard instructors, graduate students, and certain specially qualified undergraduates. Classes and lectures, held principally during the evening, will include elementary, commercial, technical, and cultural subjects...
...social considerations in the selection of its members. This is a reform parallel to that which took place some years ago in the teams representing Harvard in intercollegiate athletics. Men used to be chosen for those teams not solely because of athletics ability but sometimes because they belonged to certain clubs or were otherwise socially approved...