Word: answering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regard to transferring the Commencement exercises to the Stadium (which is in Boston)," the Graduates' Magazine says, "some one has raised the query whether the College charter makes any requirement as to the conferring of degrees at 'the University in Cambridge.' The answer is that neither the original charter nor any subsequent statute says anything about the right to confer degrees. Rather curiously the University's right to confer degrees rests upon no formal grants in the charter or by statute...
Nowadays one continually hears the question asked: "Why does Cornell turn out such superior teams to ours?" The answer generally given is that Cornell gets many preparatory school stars, and that consequently their teams automatically round into form. As a matter of fact, Cornell gets no more good schoolboy stars than any other college of like size. The real solution lies in the spirit which gets men out and makes them interested in working for their college. It is foolish to say that Harvard has no track material. Out of the 1100 odd men who are eligible for teams there...
...went to one of the Plattsburg Camps last year is asked whether he benefited from the experience, the answer is invariably in the affirmative. This applies equally to the undergraduate and the graduate...
...Every undergraduate and other member of the University should ask himself squarely the question: Have I any right not to go to one of these Camps? Except in exceptional instances, if he faces the issue squarely, there can only be one answer. The men who go will find themselves amply rewarded, in the sense of duty done and the experience they will have. The men who do not, except for unavoidable cause, should feel uncomfortable, and be made to feel...
...remedy this fault and to answer the demand from the business community, during the last thirty years the colleges have introduced special courses and have organized Business Schools. The technical schools demonstrated the value of systematic class-room training for the engineer; the college could render a similar service to the growing profession of business. At the University the great professional schools were graduate in character, and the School of Business Administration, established in 1908, was put on the same plane. It was to give a professional training, scientific in method yet practical in application, to young men aiming...