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Last year, it will be remembered, the CRIMSON made a careful canvas of both the instructors and students in order to ascertain as far as possible the opinion of the university regarding the advisability of having our library lighted during the evening. The post-cards returned to us, to the number of about twelve hundred, together with a petition were sent to the corporation, and in reply we were informed that although it was highly desirable that the improvement requested should be made there was at that time no money available for the purpose. The answer given was of course...
...summer than it has ever been before. A large number of men from the English, Scotch and foreign universities will be entertained as guests. It is desired this year that Harvard, Yale and Princeton laise the money necessary for the complete success of the meeting, and it was to ascertain the sentiment of the Harvard Y. M. C. A. in regard to this matter that the meeting was called. It was unanimosly voted that Harvard raise her share of the necessary amount. The latter part of the evening was spent by the members in a social...
...committee have taken special pains to ascertain the number of men who go with the teams to other colleges. They found that more than half of the students never leave Cambridge for this purpose, "and that on the average all absences from a college exercise from this cause amount to slightly more than one each year for each student...
...generally used in almost all departments of inquiry, as the straightforward method of investigation. First of all, he student examines a given object or phenomenon from all possible points of view and compares these results with those obtained by a similar examination of other objects and phenomena, endeavoring to ascertain what they may have in common. Thus he is prepared to formulate general statements. From such inductions he proceeds to justifiable deductions. and thence to inductions of higher orders. His most useful instruments of research are hypothesis and experiment. The demands made by the scientific method wherever employed are very...
...accounts of the base ball association have been kept in two parts; the manager and the treasurer have each kept separate accounts, so that it has been impossible to ascertain the financial condition of the association without having both sets of accounts a once. This system was evidently a bad one; and on the recommendation of the officers of 1887-8 and of the committee, it has been changed by giving the treasurer under the direction of the manager the control of the funds. This places the financial responsibility where it belongs, with the treasurer, while...