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...players got individual instruction on the plays, yesterday's practice also included the first pass defense drill that the backs have had this year. The linemen had a long session on timing in which Coach Horween used a starter's gun to get the men off with the snap of the ball...
...whole purpose of the tutorial system has been to eliminate the necessity of taking an entire course in order to glean a very few facts, and together with the divisionals and the distribution requirements, it has successfully discouraged the practise, so flourishing in former days, of taking sixteen "snap" courses and getting a degree. Here is a instance where it has apparently failed, but the application is the same and a remedy is in order. Whether it be in the direction of departmental reorganization or that of closer tutorial supervision cannot here be discussed, but a system of preliminary examinations...
...elementary course in Organic Chemistry is Chemistry 2. Interesting, not too difficult, without being a snap. There is no laboratory work, since that requirement is satisfied by Chem 22, which must be taken at the same time or during the next half year. The fundamentals of Organic Chemistry are thoroughly covered, by the lectures and class room experiments, and the retentive ability of the class for this knowledge is as throughly tested in quizzes at frequent intervals. As in much Chemistry, a sufficient knowledge may be obtained by a little intensive study on the ever of such a quiz...
...past years Geography has been more a name than an institution at Harvard. Such isolated courses as Geography 1, faintly reminiscent of the odium of a "snap", have fallen to the lot of a conspicuous minority of undergraduates. Geography as a study is only too often a memory of the fifth-grade...
...Wister reported that, when he informed President Roosevelt of the ruse: "The President's face flushed darker than I had ever seen it. Then he shut his teeth with that familiar snap of his, as he said...