Word: offing
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The interest displayed in the discussion about the development of the tutorial system of instruction in Harvard College leads the Bulletin to recite again and amplify some of the opinions it expressed a few weeks ago in an editorial on this subject.
The success of the tutorial system in English universities is primarily due to the fact that those institutions are subdivided into comparatively small groups, or colleges, where it is possible for a student to have much more intimate contact with his teachers than is the case here. . . . These college have...
If England has much to teach us in regard to the possibilities of individual instruction, either singly or in small groups, we must not forget that our lecture system gives us certain advantages which Oxford and Cambridge lack and which we should be very foolish to abandont. Our aim should...
This afternoon Harvard and Yale will play their 40th annual football match. It will refresh the memories of older graduates to look back over the scores of those years and it will make undergraduates who did not see or read of those games realize that in that long stretch of...
The number of games won by Yale as compared to those won by Harvard should certainly disperse the great wave of over confidence which, since the Princeton-Yale game has swept over Harvard graduates and undergraduates alike.