Word: point
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...helpful suggestions they saw fit. Without going deeply into the merits of the case for the deposed professor, it would seem evident that in this suggestion by the News we have a new principle of pedagogy involved. No one questions the advisability of at least considering the students point of view in conducting courses of instruction, but the idea that the action of a faculty committee in allowing a professor to resign is open to challenge by the student body is a novel one. We look with distrust upon the proposal of the News to establish a "student soviet" court...
...University twelve has had a successful season this year. Although the Southern trip proved rather unfortunate from the point of view of victories, nevertheless the men came up against older and more experienced players and thus were able to profit in later games. Among the notable victories of the year were the ones over Penn State and Yale. Both these teams are among the first ranking teams of the country...
Captain Goetz announced yesterday that he had received a communication from the War Department regarding the possibility of members of the R. O. T. C. and other students of the University receiving appointments to West Point. According to the letter, men who can obtain one of the vacant appointments from their congressman and a recommendation from the Professor of Military Science and Tactics, will be admitted to the Military Academy provided they can satisfy the physical and legal requirements. A list of the Congressional Districts in which there are vacancies has been posted in Lower University, on the Military Science...
...cause for the failure of the popular preferential primary is not to be found with the Old Guard. They have always been in the habit of taking things as they come and adapting them to their own ends. The point where the present form of primary fails is in the lack of interest which it arouses among the voters. It would seem, this year of all years, that there were burning issues to draw the attention of the most delinquent citizen, but the figures show that not ten percent of the Republican voters of the country expressed their opinions...
Captain O'Connell prepared at Exeter, where he had his first experience on the cinders, running in the mile event and captaining the track team his Senior year. Since entering the University in the fall of 1917 he has been one of the surest point gainers for the University and Freshman teams, captaining both the cross-country and relay teams for the Freshmen. In that year against Yale he covered the distance over the four-mile Belmont course in record time...