Word: constant
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...system, however, bears out Professor Munsterberg in his statement in "American Traits," that two-thirds of the elections are haphazard, controlled by accidental motives. In 1903 the Committee on Improvement of Instruction reported that the average amount of study was discreditably small, and that there was a constant increase of men willing to avoid work by the use of printed notes and "seminars." It is thus evident that in many respects the free elective system has proved a failure at Harvard. The system has, moreover, developed peculiar deficiencies. There is a lack of method and arrangement in the choice...
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Recent Methods for determining Standards of Wavelength," Mr. L. L. Campbell; "The Variation in the Solar Constant," Mr. H. N. Davis. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...short practice last night the Freshmen defeated a scrub team by a score of 30 to 18. Owing to the absence of Broun and Sessa from the line-up the play was lifeless and fumbling was constant. Lack of ability of the scrub team to follow its opponents was mainly responsible for the score...
...Freshman basketball practice last night team A defeated team B by the score of 24 to 14. The practice was the most discouraging thus far, as the team work and the passing were poor, and fouls were constant. The Freshmen will play their second practice game with the Dedham High School this evening at Dedham...
...aside from its spiritual and religious power, we should appreciate the literary value of a book written at a time when the English language was strongest and purest. By constant intimacy with the Bible, by mastering it and being mastered by it, we shall find that our power of expression is immensely increased in the possession of such a glorious store of literature...