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Towards the end of the afternoon teams A and B were sent on the field for a short scrimmage. Neither team gained much ground, and the cold weather made fumbling frequent. It was a fumble that was the cause of the only score. Early in the scrimmage W. V. Miller '23, playing defensive end for Team A, picked up the ball, fumbled by a Team B back, and ran eighty yards for a touchdown. After this, however, little was done in the way of offence, both teams resorting largely to a kicking game...
Coincident with the prodigious growth of American universities in the last half-century, there has arisen a curious animosity to the methods of the large institutions, resulting in frequent attacks. The latest of these comes from Dean MacKenzie of the Detroit Junior College. "University classes are so large and the professors so indifferent, the students do not receive the opportunity for education they find in the junior college. The big universities are taking money under false, pretences," he says. The University professor "in merely filling his position in order to earn his living so that he can go on accumulating...
...Tolstoi or Checkhov. To appear at his best he needed a play in which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development of the plot, it is distinctly the vehicle...
...this difficulty may be due to carelessness on the part of the Athletic Association. The main reason, however, for the impression of unfriendliness which is often received by visitors here is not due to any lack of hospitality, but to the present club customs and rules which prevent the frequent use of their houses for the reception of visitors. At most other colleges, strangers are put up over night or for meals at the best clubs, and obtain a favorable impression of the life at that college. The greeting which the visitor to Harvard receives in the Subway Rotunda, however...
...denied that, although there are frequent exceptions, many instructors tend to use the same lectures year after year with only slight modifications, grinding out stereotyped ideas in rapid succession without any indication that they are being absorbed by the class. Not without cause, therefore, has the lecture system been defined as the "process of transferring the notes of the instructor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either...