Word: cases
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the professors of any particular college are not competent to regulate its discipline and curriculum, we answer that they are in that case unfit for their places, and that better men should be found, and better salaries paid, if necessary, to get them, and not that the government of the college should be handed over to persons burdened with other cares, and whose chief attention is given to other subjects...
...Corporation. A marked increase in the income of the college has occurred in the last two years, the amount received, including gifts, since July 1, 1886, being over $525,000. In addition to this sum, legacies have fallen to the college within the last year, which, though in each case dependent as to the time of their realization on the continuance of a single life, will, when realized, amount, it is believed, to at least $200,000. The number of students connected with the university has increased since '85 from 1,076 to 1,365, the present number. The president...
...students, but also for the preservation of the window. The repairs must be made sooner or later and there surely can be no advantage in putting off the job. Is this another aspect of "Harvard Indifference," or is it due to a want of authority? In either case, there should be a remedy...
...barbarism and clouded thought, they contributed to civilization the intellectual standard. The Romans handed down the forms of the will, the forms of legality. With the German the tendency towards intellectual theory is natural. He thinks before he acts; does not get his knowledge from experience-as is the case with the English-but from a careful and deep insight into himself. Then, when it is time to reap the fruit of this study of his mind and conscience, he acts. In other words, internal activity precedes external activity. Owing to this ability of looking into himself, the German...
...facts of the case are well known; that Exeter has been in the past almost entirely a preparatory school for Harvard, but within the past few years an increasing number of men have gone to Yale. This may be due to our nonsuccess in athletics, to a false notion of Harvard methods, or to the energetic efforts of the Exeter Club at Yale. However desirable such a club at Harvard might have been in the past, it now an absolute necessity. That it can do good work and exert strong influence, no one can deny. There are at present ninety...