Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...After a thorough investigation the CRIMSON has found that the position of the Faculty is based upon no specific injuries to scholarship by intercollegiate athletics, but upon the general feeling ("vague generalities" being objected to) that the undergraduate mind is too pre-occupied, too prone to dwell upon punts, hurdles, and three-base hits, instead of upon problems of social ethics...
...best preparation for a journalistic career for the college man is a study and practice of English composition and a thorough general culture in the best sense of the term. Specialization in art, music or some other branch of culture with a view to being a critic in this branch is not desirable; on the other hand, what is essential is a love for writing, a keen imagination and enthusiasm...
...Profesor Huntington's "Pulse of Asia," receive fuller notice. A short, but pithy, article by Mr. Volkmann on college entrance requirements discusses the ques- tion from the point of view of the preparatory teacher, and gives strong reasons for such a revision of the requirements as shall permit more thorough work in the schools. The reports of the work and play of the University and of the doings of its graduates are as full and interesting as usual. Especial attention may be directed to the list, on pages 600 ff., of Harvard men who are teaching in other universities...
Competitors are advised that the studies should be thorough, expressed in good English, and although not limited as to length, they should not be needlessly expanded. They should be inscribed with an assumed name, and whether in Class A, or Class B, the year when the bachelor's degree was or is likely to be received, and accompanied by a sealed envelope giving the real name and the address of the competitor, and the institution which conferred the degree, or in which he is studying. The papers should be sent on or before June 1, 1908, to J. L. Laughlin...
...filling a large share of their more serious consideration. We venture to believe that in some respects the views of the undergraduates are more nearly correct under modern conditions than those of "the powers that be" in the University. An example will illustrate: We undergraduates believe, by democratic and thorough organization of all the undergraduate community into classes, teams, class dormitories, and the like, and with the whole strengthened by the presence of an untrammeled system of intercollegiate games, that each individual is given a better chance, and the "esprit de corps" of the University greatly increased. Apparently, our elders...