Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...departments of college life, and the maturity of Harvard men, are strong evidences that the vast majority of students would utterly scorn to make use of unfair means to gain an end which is valuable, only so far as it is genuine. While every thoughtful Harvard man will admit this last statement, there can be no doubt that cribbing is practised by many who recognize in it, the only method possible of maintaining their class rank, and that college opinion is not yet outspoken enough to stamp such cribbing as nothing more nor less than cheating. It is this opinion...
...would ask her representative paper to answer a few questions regarding a course at Harvard. What college is it that stands head and shoulders above all other New England colleges in matters of requirements for admission? Why is it that a certificate from the larger preparatory schools will admit without examination to nearly every New England college with the exception of Harvard? Again, why is it that a year of extra study is necessary for admission to Harvard beyond what is required at other colleges? Who can "enroll his name upon the college books" at Cambridge? Only that...
...health resort in England they steep sea weed for an hour in boiling water, and then cooling the water slightly, admit the bather, who remains in twenty minutes, and comes out, it is alleged, greatly strengthened and refreshed. This might be an advantageous improvement over the present method of rubbing down weary athletes with whiskey...
...week, and never conduct any of the regular class work which forms the backbone of a good college course. Even Harvard cannot keep as good a corps of instructors as we have at Rochester, because with all her wealth, her classes are too many and too large to admit of approved ability and experience as teachers...
...circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter a student's room at pleasure, a policeman cannot enter without a search warrant sworn out for that particular room. Therefore, unless this document is presented in regular form, no man need feel obliged to admit anyone, save the college authorities. On the other hand, every man is at liberty to protect his room from intrusion in any way that may seem best. In truth, either a policeman's billy, hat, or belt make a much better wall decoration than the handsomest street sign ever "ragged...