Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game of foot-ball is not to be given up for good and all, the college must bestir itself at once, and show its desire to have the sport continue to be a prominent feature in Harvard athletics. The action of last year's athletic committee is not binding upon the college for all time, and there is every probability that the near future may witness the reinstatement of Harvard in the inter-collegiate league. Meanwhile the only thing to be done is to organize class elevens to compete for the championship of the college. From these teams a fairly...
...conference, adopt, by a majority vote of the student members, a resolution which the faculty members shall report, - like the report of a committee, - as soon as possible to the faculty; and the faculty members shall, as soon as possible, report back to the student members the action of the faculty in regard to the report, and the grounds of this action...
...action taken by the overseers in recommending that no degrees be here-after conferred save for merit only, is the direct outcome of the Butler debate of two years ago, and should meet with approval by every one who desires to maintain the dignity and meaning of the higher degrees. Every commencement time has become, under the habit of bestowing honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly...
This recommendation of the overseers should be adopted by all the leading colleges of our land, and in this way, by united action, the tendency to degrade the good old meaning that has been attached to these former exclusive titles of learning can be corrected, and in the end, a standard for conferring the higher degrees established, that will reflect additional honor on the giver, and on the recipient...
...those who can understand it, the next sentence will be of interest. The examination in Mathematics 5 will be on as much of the following subjects as has been treated since the mid-years; Motion of Particles under action of Central Forces, Rigid Dynamics, Theory of Functions of a Single Imaginary Variable, and Elliptic Functions...