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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News and reprinted in today's CRIMSON, Mr. H. W. Clark attempts to prove that probation is an institution which has no place as a disciplinary or scholastic measure in an "intellectual institution" such as Harvard. The arguments which Mr. Clark adduces to make his point are numerous, but his most important indictments of probation are (1) that it has the effect of inculcating laziness in the average student athlete by fixing a minimum standard above which there is no incentive for him to keep his average; (2) that by taking intercollegiate competition away from the athlete it takes away...
...regard to point (1): even admitting that probation has the effect of establishing a standard of satisfaction which is likely to prove the limit of the average athlete's ambition, what effect would the abolition of probation have? In the absence of any other check there is every reason to suppose that the same athlete would allow himself to slip even lower than the standard established by probation. If it were proposed to dismiss him, still there must be some criterion on which to judge and he must in all fairness be warned. Probation requirements, subject to the elastic judgment...
...regard to point (2): if it is true that intercollegiate competition is the chief impetus to athletics, then the athletics-for-all policy, Harvard's extensive intra-mural program, and President Lowell's theory of the Greek as opposed to the Roman ideal of athletic competition may all just as well be relegated to the scrap basket. Furthermore the figures on the number of men engaged in intercollegiate sports and those engaged in frankly intramural competition are so convincing on this point that it need scarcely be considered further. In dealing with the class of men to whom only extra...
...manner in which the Bible and Shakespeare examinations have been conducted this year has been, from a student point of view, very faulty. Seniors were greeted a few days after their return last September with the sudden announcement that these examinations would be held at a time about a week earlier than was the case last year. The Juniors in History and Literature, as has been stated before in this column, will be obliged to take their Bible-Shakespeare examinations only ten days after the end of the mid-year period, at a time impractical both for its closeness...
...managers also announced that trials will be held on Tuesday, February 4, and Thursday, February 6, for men who wish to try for membership in the clubs. The point that there would be no difference in the standings of men already in the clubs and men who might enter after midyears was stressed by the managers. They also stated that non-participation in the Christmas vacation tour necessarily did not preclude election to permanent membership in the organization...