Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place that the examinations, which are to give us the main part of our marks for the year, should all be placed at the end of the year when the weather is least suited for studying. In the Law School it is the custom, I believe, to allow men option of taking their examinations either in the summer or in the fall. Why cannot this custom be introduced into the college, in the case of all the lower class men. A man is expected to render an account of a year's work in three hours of the hottest...
...case of the freshman year. It so happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass, and the latter closely, so that far too many are made to fail. Paradoxical as it may sound, there is a great deal of difference in marking what a man does and marking what he does not do, and yet many instructors seem...
...tendency towards the enhancement of the value of land above its present value withdraws large bodies of land from cultivation, and drives down the margin of cultivation. Facts show this statement to be entirely contrary to the truth. It is, moreover, unreasonable to assume that men will not allow their land to be cultivated, and so get the present rent, solely because they expect in future some higher rent...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Will you kindly allow me a space in your columns to make a few remarks concerning class lives? The blanks which I am distributing are of such a formidable and discouraging size that men are deterred even from an attempt to fill them out. The following set of questions may therefore be of some assistance as a guide for what is required...
...this year without the services of a competent trainer, we can hardly expect to do so hereafter. The lack of good training is felt as much in this as in other branches of athletics. We again express our hope that the faculty will next year see fit to allow some different arrangement in regard to trainers than that of this year...