Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trial row over the seven-eighths of a mile course, commencing at Harvard Bridge and finishing at Longwood Bridge. Farley's crew secured a slight lead at the start, but Pleasonton's crew soon caught up and passed them by a length. They were unable, however, to maintain this gain, and finished only a few feet in the lead. The time was about 5 minutes and 20 seconds. As yet the orders of the four-oar crews have been provisional. From the result of the work yesterday, a first and second crew will be chosen this afternoon...
...also voted to discontinue final honors in history and political science after 1907. On the recommendation of the division of Ancient Language however, it was decided to maintain final honors in the classics, since they represent more specialization than the degree with distinction. The present requirements for final honors in classics were amended as follows: "Candidates must offer themselves in at least five subjects including (1), (2), and (3) of the list of subjects given in the requirement: for the degree with distinction in classics. They must also have taken second year honors...
...must be borne in mind that the negative is not called upon to defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...free elective system is not merely an evolution, as the affirmative will maintain; it is a revolution. And against it stands the weight of opinion held by the majority of eminent educators of the day. The tendency of American colleges, beginning with the University of Indiana in 1888, and ending with Princeton in 1905, has been away from the free elective system. There is no demand or necessity for the system, which would indeed, owing to the varying conditions existing in our colleges, prove in many cases impracticable and unsatisfactory...
...March 3 Yale completed her schedule in the intercollegiate basketball series, and closed the season in second place. Although at one time the team had some chance of winning the championship, its defeat by Columbia on March 1 by the score of 24 to 21 allowed its opponent to maintain the lead and finish i first place. The game was without doubt the most exciting match ever played on the Yale floor, as Yale held the lead at the end of the first half, 13 to 11. On Friday the university team lost in the last game of the season...