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...duplicate, will be kept in a convenient place, such as near the notice box in the CRIMSON Office. Conflicts in dates will easily be seen and avoided. The council thus proposes acting in cooperation with the official book of dates kept by the Recorder, to reduce conflicts to a minimum. Second, the council will act as a sort of general clearing-house. If one club is to give a lecture of interest, other clubs will be notified by the secretary. The council will represent any member before an outside organization, and also if any organization outside the University desires...
...Freshmen, two Cs and one D; for Sophomores, a total of five Cs and two Ds; for Juniors, eight Cs and four Ds; and for Seniors, twelve Cs and five and one-half Ds; and for all, no matter what marks they have to their credit, a minimum...
...required, that is, one more C; for it has been found that men taken off probation after the April hour examinations are inclined to take a decided slump. Last spring it was found from statistics compiled by the Dean that 35 per cent. of the men who made the minimum requirements at the hour examinations and were taken off probation, failed in their final examinations, the number of failures of these men being greater than the number of failures among those who were kept on probation. Over half of the Freshmen taken off at the hours last spring were dropped...
...question of "raising the minimum" of College academic requirements was mentioned in the President's Report and has been brought up again by the Advocate. The latter says that the standard should be raised either by increasing the requisite number of courses or by raising the passing grade. We can see no possible reason in the first suggestion; there may be wisdom in the second...
...this, President Lowell says, "a minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity." Of course, this is absolutely true; a high standard will never solve the problem of stimulating interest in scholarship. The Advocate notes, however, that no provision is made for men of average capacity, and we must admit that the "just average" man is a difficult proposition to deal with. But he is here, and if he cannot be induced to study of himself, should he be obliged to, and if so how much? In other words...