Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...annual fall crew regatta will take place Thursday and Friday of this week on the Charles. All races except those between the first crews from each dormitory, and the second crews, will be held on Thursday. These two races will take place on the one-mile course downstream...
...easy week is in prospect for the Crimson pigskin chasers except for the ill-starred second team, who will be hard at work learning Princeton plays. There is little doubt that eleven substitutes will start against Virginia. One of the most likely changes will be a real try-out of Wales at quarter, who, delayed in his return to Cambridge, has had but little chance to show his good or bad points this year...
Without doubt, the underlying cause for this apparently inexcusable apathy is that the duties of class officers are so light and inconsequential that but few care who the class officers are, except perhaps their personal friends. As there are no duties of a class officer, there can be no qualifications for office; the result is that the office has become merely a reward for popularity or athletic achievement. It would be more suitable to vote for the most popular man or the best athlete, as such, rather than disguising the basis of selection under the role of "President...
...studied in both British and American universities knows that, except with radical adaptations, it can never be brought into our colleges. Three things are necessary to it; small groups of men working together, instructors especially gifted for it and trained in it, and a conception of college study which makes every student an explorer in some big, general field of knowledge rather than a cub reporter in several simultaneous personally conducted tours in small corners of various fields. Small groups are more and more difficult to arrange in our huge, democratic colleges, and the number of college instructors in this...
...upshot is that too many of the better men leave college without having become honestly interested and competent in any science or art. Instead of haying paddled their own canoes at leisure along respectable stretches of the scientific or humanistic rivers they know nothing about them except impressions caught from the suspension bridges on which they have been swung across the streams at intervals. The location of the bridges has depended on the builders. Of course, they are extremely well built. That is just the trouble with them. The view from them is obviously so much better than...