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...Broad jump.- F. B. Fogg, '85; E. H. Rogers, '87; I. H. Brewer, '88; M. R. Peck...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- The officers of the H. A. A. have decided to omit the standing high jump from the list of events at the winter meetings, and to substitute therefor the running broad jump. They have done this on the ground that the standing jump is no longer contested at the Mott Haven sports. Is this, however, the only consideration...
...purpose of the H. A. A. is to encourage athletics in all forms, not to check it. The running broad jump has its proper place in the out-door meetings, while the standing jump is only contested in the winter meeting. If it were only on account of the record Harvard has made in this event, we hope that the officers will see fit to reconsider their decision...
When the elective pamphlet appears next May, there is one addition to its already broad list of electives which we would very much like to see. In almost all of our courses we are obliged to take extensive notes of the instructor's lecture, not only for the purpose of having a synopsis of the work and a guide for outside reading, but also because there are some things which he says which it is impossible to find elsewhere, or, if to be found at all, only after toilsome research. If the disagreeableness of note-taking were the only drawback...
Says Mr. John E. Todd, in a letter recently printed in the New York Times: "The chief objection to the elective system adopted some time ago at Harvard, and more recently at Yale, is that its tendency is to produce specialists instead of men of broad culture and liberal ideas. Deliver us from men who know but one thing. The man who knows but one thing. The man who knows but one thing does not know that, for he does not know it in its relation to other things. What a college ought to give is a liberal education, preparatory...