Word: validation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...both sports is about the same. Yet of the two only the wrestling team has a coach. The present objection to having a coach seems to be that the Gymnastic Association is not on a paying basis, and that more expense is not warranted. Is this reason more valid for this branch of sport than for the wrestling, which also yields a deficit annually? Besides, the gymnastic associations do not pay in the colleges where they have coaches. With good gymnastic teams, furthermore, the added expense of a coach would be justified by the increased interest we may expect...
...know, the only objection is that the Faculty does not want a purely war course, that it does not want to give war such importance. If this had been a conflict in a far away country, in a far away time, such an objection might be valid, but under the circumstances it is worthless, for such a course would not be a mere history of campaigns, and even if it were the military interest would not be uppermost. As matters stand, there will be a distinct gap in the view that Harvard gives us of our past, until a course...
...student is not a good writer of English it is probably because he has not had enough practice. It might be that, even if an intermediary course in composition between English A and English 22 were instituted, all who need it might not enroll, but this is hardly a valid reason for not establishing such a course. There are many who feel that the present facilities are inadequate. The opening of a course in English composition designed primarily to afford an opportunity for men to practice writing under careful supervision, even if they have not been honor men in English...
...courses on time at the beginning of the college year. This ruling was occasioned by the failure through pure carelessness of some 40 men to do this last September. It does not, however, apply to men who hand in their lists late because of sickness or some other valid excuse...
...what these signature cards are, or where they can be obtained nothing is said. Graduates and undergraduates alike are left in the dark-some think the applications are themselves the signature cards, while others remember signature cards filed last year and wonder whether these are still valid. The lack of sufficient explanation about the signature cards has led to a good deal of confusion...