Word: answered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nine o'clock instead of half-past nine as heretofore. This change is made in order to hold the examinations in the cooler part of the day. The new hours are not entirely in accordance with the wishes and convenience of the Faculty, but they are made chiefly in answer to the general opinion of the students as expressed in the college papers...
...Whitney further suggests that May 14 is too early, and that the morning of May 21, would answer the purposes as well as any date. Even overlooking the fact that the constitution sets the date for May 14, Mr. Whitney seems to neglect the fact that Harvard, counting of course on having the U. T. A. C. A. games on May 14, has made all her other dates accordingly. The Harvard track is used by a number of associations, and it has been with no little difficulty that arrangements have been made so as to accommodate them all. The university...
...moral life. For the sake of clearer knowledge, one is called upon to build up a physchology of the soul, a counterpart of metaphysics and theology. The two must be kept apart; it is the mixing that prevents progress. The question still entertained, is still one without an answer, is there a science of ethics...
...This descriptive statement is designed to answer, in a less formal way than the annual Catalogue answers them, many of the questions which the intelligent public ask concerning Harvard University and its ways and means...
Professor Palmer's "Doubts about University Extension," must send a chill down the backs of the many warm supporters of that new system of education. Professor Palmer's "doubts" arise in the attempt to answer the question - Are the aims of university extension practicable? On this point, he says: "We cannot with certainity say that they are not, but it is here that doubts arise, - doubts of three sorts: those which suspect a fundamental difference in the two countries [England and America] which try the experiment; those which are incredulous about the permanent response which our people will make...