Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ours is a learned company," he writes. "A number of us are already Ph. D.'s and are now preparing themselves (sic) and what will be their literary contribution to the world. This is by way of advance advertising for my friends, the Ph.D...
Virtually all of the victims of the 1919 season were players not participating in games conducted under strict physical requirements. Defenders of the college sport pointed out that with one exception the victims were players who entered the game without expert training. The small number of fatalities this year was remarkable, as the game was played even more extensively than in pre-war days...
Since the establishment of the system, practically no effort has been made to decrease the amount of required class work, the number of weekly tests, or routine labor. The work of individual investigation and reading with the tutor, which is the very aim of the system, has suffered, and has necessarily shrunk to an almost negligible amount...
...faculty must either give up the idea entirely and return to the high school theory of nothing but assigned lessons, or it must put the 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...
...number of players who will make the trip has not yet been determined, but this question will be decided within a few days. The squad will leave for the west immediately at the beginning of the Christmas recess and will have a week in which to train for the game under Californian conditions. The trip is made possible because of the lengthening of the vacation period to 15 days. Therefore, if the team leaves for home immediately after the game, no more than a one or two-day extension of the recess at the most will be needed...