Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...honor is given to an interesting comparison of the physical qualifications of various classes of students, under the title of "The Physique of Scholars, Students, and the Average Student," by Dr. Dudley A. Sargent. Dr. Sargent holds that an excessive attention to athletics is an evil not nearly so serious as over-attention to studies on the part of the high-stand men. From statistics of physical examinations he shows that the standard of physique of the athlete and of the average student has risen surprisingly in the 28 years covered by his records, while the scholarship man is considerably...
...emblematic of scholarship. Some other form of the "H" might be devised which would be more suitable, or, if the "H" is to be held sacred to athletics, some other badge or mark of distinction might be awarded by student legislation. Is not this a matter worthy of the serious, consideration of the Student Council when it comes to discuss plans for carrying out the avowed purpose of its existence? PROFESSOR T.N. CARVER...
...desirable, since election by wards means of necessity election on questions of local policy, while the chief needs and interests of the modern city are not local in any sense. Election by wards results in corruption, the obstructing of public business, and the obscuring of responsibility, a very serious defect in any government...
...conditions has proved anything but satisfactory. The committee of ratification has not, as its advocates expected, done much toward solving the difficulty. As stated earlier in the year, the CRIMSON strongly favors election by the class, as the only alternative. The method, it must be admitted, is open to serious objections, but could, we believe, be regulated so as to exclude men who are popular but inefficient. A committee of athletes and managers could select several possibilities at large, the winner to be decided by the class. Thus would the individual managers be relieved of the responsibility of making...
...increasing number of men who take their degrees in three years is becoming, from an undergraduate's point of view, at least, a serious menace to the College. Throughout Harvard's development the College has been subordinated to the University, or at least placed upon the same plane of importance as the other departments, with the result that we have developed the most efficient graduate and professional schools of any American university. "Contemporaneousness of the whole" has been the object persistently followed--admirably fitted to the needs and desires of graduate students, but to the undergraduates eminently disappointing...