Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nation of this week contains a communication from "Anti-Butler (Harvard, '83)," in which the writer condemns the conferring of degrees by Harvard upon men who have attained political rank, but are perhaps not noted for their intellectual power. He calls this action an "annual farce," and asks, "What sort of civil service reform is the university teaching...
...senior class of Dartmouth College to express a choice for commencement orator, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll received a majority of votes. Subsequent, it was learned that this year the right of choosing the commencement orator is vested in the Alumni Association, and not in the senior class; consequently the action of the latter is valid...
...almost identical with that of the students. Several professors, who on all subjects affecting the interests of the students are appointed to prominent positions on the faculty committees, are strongly in favor of consultations between the instructors and the students, and even advocate that whenever the faculty take an action that affects either a student or the students in general, the reasons for that action be made known. At present it is not the custom to announce the "why and wherefore" of most of the movements of the authorities, and for that reason some of their decrees have seemed arbitrary...
...expect to reduce the working force, while the English department, where the instruction, as far as the prescribed courses are concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain the services of some new man who would reflect credit upon the university, as the instructor named for the position is one already identified with Harvard...
...chiefly owing to his own incompetence. It was charged, however, that Fitz-John Porter was to blame, and he was tried by a court-martial, and sentenced to be dismissed. This decision was brought up and considered by a court of inquiry in 1878-79, who recommended that the action of the court martial be reversed. Mr. Channing then explained the maps which he had brought with him, and showed the position of the armies. He explained the famous "joint order" of Pope's to McDowell and Porter, and the way in which Porter misunderstood it, and hence...