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...entered the fifteen colleges where rowing has taken root, and of this number 5,537 graduated. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia are among the colleges, whose records were examined. Of rowing men there were 329, of whom 244 received their degrees." At all colleges there is a standard of scholarship below which a student cannot fall, and yet graduate. It requires only moderate ability to reach this standard. Athletes being reputed stupid, it would follow that few of them can graduate, and such as do only squeeze through their examinations. But an inspection of the college records reveals quite...
...Davis, L. S., replied in the affirmative. His main points were social and moral, - the danger of a dense population, the tendency to lower the American standard of living. He claimed that the Chinese are slaves, and untrustworthy. Politically they are to be feared as they have a separate government...
President Eliot discussed particularly "their formality in requisitions for admission to college," and "believed that there are good reasons for diversity in the standard for admission. If uniformity means by the same tests for admission in all cases, it is out of the question." He did not believe that it was necessary that there should be the same number of subjects required for admission in each case, or the same limits exacted in the extent to which studies shall be pursued, nor did he believe that the same strictness in examinations is desirable in all instances. But in all cases...
...such distinction, as long as it exists, can hardly be said to be for the best interests of education. The same remarks apply to certificates of admission as well as to certificates of graduation. Of course it is not desirable to lower the present high standard of some college to an equality with the standards of others, but rather to raise the lower standards. While such a change might affect with injury the prosperity of the high-standard colleges, yet to the colleges at large it would be a benefit, and, of course, general good is always to be preferred...
...been extremely fortunate in its officers, yet this good fortune has been the result of chance rather than that of the exercise of any special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept up to the standard of former years, we must continue to place men in control of them whose experience has fitted them for their positions. We trust that the wishes of the officers of the association may be heeded, and that the students may by a generous attendance at tonight's meeting give proof...