Word: handing
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...
...immediately upon all written suggestions submitted to him. 3. This constitution is open to amendment by a written petition of 50 men, which in itself necessitates the convocation of a class meeting. A quorum at class meetings, notice of which has been given at least two days before hand, shall consist or 100 classmen
...first game of its season by defeating the Boston Hockey Club, 4 to 3, in the Boston Arena Saturday night. Although the team-play of the University forwards was poor, it showed improvement, especially in the second half, over practice work. The Boston Hockey Club, on the other hand, seemed to lose all idea of team-work and depended mainly on the individual brilliancy of Clifford, Hicks and Winsor, who were prevented from scoring more frequently only by the excellent work of Chadwick at goal, and Huntington at coverpoint...
...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 as much time...
...adopting some such course, there would be a Student Council of real worth and one that would possess the hearty approval of the undergraduates. If, on the other hand, the present scheme is ratified we will be in possession of a Council with a hastily constructed and faulty constitution. A constitution which precludes the possibility of the new Council becoming a real and effective force in the undergraduate world...