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...prizes undoubtedly have considerable effect as a stimulus. But on the other hand, the lax requirements in certain courses, requirements which can be technically satisfied by nominal effort, actually promote slip-shod work. In some of the more advanced courses especially the theory in force is that of allowing wide choice and initiative as regards reading. Sometimes this reading is not tested, and the students' word is taken as sufficient evidence that it has been adequately done. Without wishing to attack student honor unduly, one may suggest that this is not a very dependable method. It results too often...
...their worth to the team in a very impressive manner, while Taylor, undergoing his first real test at centre, proved to be the star of the line. His spirited play improved the work of the line as a whole, and time and again he stopped the runner on plays wide from his position...
...wide-spread response is made arrangements will be made enabling students to purchase six tickets for the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank for 25 cents...
...Gothic Hall beyond, which sufficiently represents the crossing and choir of a church. This arrangement provides and appropriate location for the cast of the rood screen of Naunburg Cathedral. The largest hall, given to the period of Rennaissance culture, and measuring seventy feet long by fifty feet wide, has a flat ceiling supported by columns dividing the hall into two parts...
...regard to the means of attaining it. One question thrusts itself prominently forward: every man who is to study a profession must, if he is serious, master that subject well; why, then, it may be asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly to getting as wide an acquaintance with as many subjects as possible, and leave his thorough knowledge of one field to his professional training? The answer is obvious to anyone who has had practical experience. The mind that deals only with elementary work in many subjects rarely gets the vigorous training needed to acquire...