Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon college students. The reason is indifference with some, lack of time with others. The average business men and the average high school boy are better posted upon every day happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting to do in this way just what the newspapers are every...
...scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will be discussed later in these columns...
Without going further, then, we can see no harm in permitting 'competent students' - who only, according to the words of the announcement, are to be afforded the privilege of entering these courses - to take two courses of this kind. It seems clear enough that no one would be likely to engage in two special investigations and limit his field of work to such narrow lines, unless for good reason and with definite aim. And in such a case the student's desires ought to be gratified. Harvard cannot afford to put any discouragement in the way of an ambitious...
Thirty-six men took part in the election of captain of the University eleven yesterday afternoon. Messrs. Willard, Peabody, Holden and Porter, withdrew their names as candidates, leaving a clear field to Brooks and Burgess. Mr. Brooks received a majority of the votes, and is therefore elected...
...beat Yale we must have a good captain. Unless the best man is elected to that position there is no especial point in having an eleven. So far no captain has been elected. The members of the eighty-five eleven have so far been unable to give anyone a clear majority. Why the eighty-five eleven should elect the captain for eighty-seven, nobody seems to know. The custom has always been for the eleven of one year to elect the captain for the next year. This year there was no University eleven. Consequently the three upper class elevens, which...