Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - A correspondent in the CRIMSON of yesterday urges a revival of the Shakespeare Club, and makes certain assertions and insinuations that are wholly unwarrantable. Permit me to examine your correspondent's misstatements in detail...
...deny that with all the resources of a magnificent library at his command any earnest man may make himself a master of our literature up to a certain point; but the English Department offers him little incentive, while the French Department offers much...
...Regulations" is very just. The new rule is, in my opinion, inconsistent with one of the principles underlying the elective system, - that equal excellence in every study cannot be attained by the same individual, but that some minds are so constituted that they can not pursue certain branches with success. Now this principle is recognized by the faculty elsewhere, as is evidenced by the following extract from the 1886-87 mathematical announcement; "It is unadvisable for students who have little taste or capacity for Mathematics to attempt the higher Mathematical electives." Is not that principle equally applicable to this case...
...Theatre last evening was fully equal to the usual good work of the Symphony Orchestra. We cannot let the opportunity pass of giving our hearty support to these performances. They are an addition to the course of study at the college, and at the same time they create a certain pleasant diversion to the monotony of the regular work. A large number of men attend them when given in Cambridge, who would never think of going into Boston, although they really enjoy the music when they are once in the hall. But, as we all know, many will give...
...suppose the old 55 per cent.) shall be recommended for such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make a certain average; in the new, if he has received one low mark, no matter what his average may be, his cum laude is lost. Imagine a man losing a cum laude by a low mark in freshman chemistry or Physics...