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...tutorial system has been the butt of so many criticisms, that further comment on it would seem to make the situation even more perplexing; but one immediate change,--a more nearly uniform conference schedule--would do much to help relieve the present confusion, and would be welcomed by both the friends and foes of tutorial work. At present there seems to be no co-ordination between tutors; some meet their advisees for ten minutes monthly, while others hold two hours of conferences a week. As long as this irregular condition remains, it is impossible for the college office to assign...
...first two periods were replete with reversals, both teams sharing the honors. Although neither Newell nor Holmes were overworked, the defense men on each side were the butt of slashing attacks. Collins and Poole for M. A. C. made a number of spectacular dashes up the ice only to be checked at the hands of the Crimson backs. McCarthy for the Amherst men was everywhere, and seconded by Mansell, rover and coach on the visiting seven, headed a scoring combination which seemed to outclass for a time the University...
...first period, which ended in a draw, was a battle to the death between Holmes and Wylde, playing at the cage for the B. A. A. The former, employing at various moments, feet, hands, legs, body and stick, was the butt of a perfect shower of shots, while Wylde, hammered almost as unceasingly by the University skaters, was bombarded, and driven out of position a dozen times, though succeeding in covering up on each occasion...
...many years ago any suggestion that a university should take more than a passing interest in what was going on outside its cloister would not have been received with any great degree of warmth. It was this scholastic attitude that made the college man the butt of ridicule for every journalist and humorist of the country, who sarcastically called attention to the essential impracticability of a college education...
...College was only too willing to let Uncle Sam utilize its buildings, in the expectation of assisting in the successful prosecution of the war, but it is sorry that this city has been the butt of governmental inefficiency. Doubtless the school has done much good, but we are as glad to see the blue horde passing into oblivion, as they...