Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second place, as to the report faculty members are to make to the conference of action the faculty may have taken on the resolution of a previous conference, the Advocate says: "It would be better if the student members felt they had the right to ask the grounds on which the faculty based its action in case of disagreement." The faculty struck out the original clause requlring this, not because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give...
...Amherst college senate has over hauled the '86 Olio, it being claimed that articles were published in that production which had been especially forbidden by the faculty. No action was taken, and the discussion of the affair goes over till next week. A committee was also appointed to draw up a constitution for the senate, which is much need, since the powers of the senate are by no means fully defined...
...another column we publish an editorial taken from the Record commenting on the action of the faculty in deciding that the oration shall be delivered in Latin. It sounds as if it had been taken from some faculty report of half a century ago. Yet we think that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates...
...endeavoring to infuse new life into that, of late, dormant organization is shown by the series of games arranged for the coming few weeks. If is quite a time since any cricket campaign has been planned by the club so extensive as that at present contemplated. The course of action cannot fail to bring the club into prominence, and it ought to result in greatly raising the standard of play at Harvard. The practice which the club will gain by its games against teams like those put upon the field by the Longwood, Haverford, and University of Pennsylvania cricket clubs...
...game to have been played between the Goats and Amateurs was forfeited by the former club. By this action the games with this club are thrown out, and the Stars and Amateurs are each credited with a "9 to 0" victory...