Word: affections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems to be settled that before next year changes will be made in the English requirements, which will directly affect candidates for honors in that department. At present such a candidate has to have (1) a scientific knowledge of the origin and development of the English Language and Literature. (2) a general acquaintance with English Literature. (3) Proficiency in English Composition. Although no hard and fast rules have been made as to these requirements, it is pretty well understood that a candidate, in selecting the six full courses required for honors, must bear in mind the object of the department...
...Local government ought usually to engage the first interest of the citizens.- a. They more directly affect the individual. Ex. schools, fire dept., etc. b. Local taxes are greater than state and national.- c. Greater than state and nationa.- c. Greater influence of individual on local affairs...
...after arrival; No. Am. Rev. Vol. 139, p. 258. c. They take only money, (and but little of that) out of the country and leave finished products; No. Am. Rev. Vol. 148, p. 482; Vol. 134, p. 564. d. They compete only with unskilled labor, and do not therefore affect the wages of skilled labor; No. Am. Rev., Vol. 148, p. 487. e. They are frugal, industrious, peaceable, and never "strike": Lippincott's Vol. 11, p. 220, and Vol. 2, p. 36; Nation...
...year marks in Latin C will not affect the final marks...
...that, except in the freshman year, study is not interfered with by athletics." They go even farther than this. They say "Fully alive to the evils which are connected with athletic affairs, the committee are of the opinion that intercollegiate contests stimulate athletics, stimulate general exercise, and thus favorably affect the health and moral tone of the university." With such evidence in favor of intercollegiate contests, it would seem to us exceedingly bad policy to kill them as President Eliot's rules inevitably would. For without minor games outside of the college the university teams could not obtain sufficient practice...