Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considering the advisability of making a marked departure from the usual routine of college musical events, and are planning the presentation of an oratorio, or of some other musical work of respectable magnitude. The success of the Boylston Club in rendering such compositions leads us to believe that an attempt of this kind by the vocal and instrumental talent of the college would be sure of a favorable reception. The members of the Glee Club would form a nucleus for an excellent choral organization, while no better accompaniment could be desired than that which the Pierian Sodality, in its present...
...pleasant, to say the least, when the other colleges which go to make up the inter-collegiate base-ball league are soundly abusing one another for alleged attempt at rattling visiting nines by yelling at errors, and hooting at victorious and defeated teams, to look back upon the record of Harvard for the past year, unblemished by a single ungentlemanly act. Another point to be remembered with gratification is that the feeling between the three great universities,- Harvard, Yale and Princeton-is now more friendly and cordial than it has been for years past. The history of this year...
...years ago, and should meet with approval by every one who desires to maintain the dignity and meaning of the higher degrees. Every commencement time has become, under the habit of bestowing honorary degrees, a time not of recognizing merit and rewarding it, but an occasion for an undignified attempt to increase the influence of a college by giving men, eminent in other departments than in learning, titles which are properly the reward of only scholarship and high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful...
...bearing in educating men who intend to make this their life work. It seems to be the universal opinion of practical newspaper men that the only way to get any insight into their profession is by an apprenticeship on a paper, and that it is impracticable for colleges to attempt to give any special instruction. Of course the details of office work can only be learned in this...
...which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It is simyly an attempt to carry into examination material with which the questions of the examiners may be answered without any regard to the student's knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing the same questions...