Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...Berle '13 favored the present system in France. She now stands out as one of the most prosperous nations in Europe. The ministerial responsibility acts as a balance wheel to the Republic. It has made for national stability, local efficiency, and general satisfaction in the French populace...
...discussion of academic rank, however, the questions of outside interests and standards of success must be considered. The goal for which the men from public schools try is largely high marks and mental training, and to this end they tend to sacrifice athletics and social diversions in general. On the other hand, the boarding-school graduate measures his success as an undergraduate by the prominence which he attains in fields of activity which are not purely scholastic. Consequently men of this group play the greater part in the broadening "outside interests"; and naturally enough do not or cannot devote...
During the winter term Mr. W. F. Garcelon L.'95 will conduct a class in general athletics for Freshmen who are not candidates for any of the athletic teams. This class is intended for men who have not been active in athletic work. Last year Mr. Garcelon held such a class as this and it proved of benefit to all the men in it. The exact date for the beginning of this class has not yet been settled, but it will be announced later...
Professor Merriman has a practical suggestion along these lines. He proposes a general examination at the end of the college course for which one should be preparing himself throughout his college course. Without denying the advantages of the present system of specific examination, he does maintain that it could be made far more effective still in combination with a more general test along somewhat different lines. The amount of information that the average American college graduate possesses, he believes, is not nearly so inadequate as is his ability to utilize that information, and to discover and make good...
...purpose of this Council is thoroughly to co-operate with the Faculty in raising the general intellectual standard at Harvard, as stated in the undergraduate petition to the Faculty dated April 29, 1908, to bring before the governing bodies of the University expression of undergraduate opinion on subjects pertaining to the University, and to co-operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating any evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question...