Word: clinging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most instructive lectures ever given in Sanders Theatre. We are essentially the disciples of Free Trade at Harvard, and it is only fair that the other side should have a chance to defend itself. Such an opportunity was given last night, and though we may still cling to our free trade dogmas we are at least gratificd to hear a manly and independent exposition of the doctrines of our dissenting brethren...
...strong reason why it should not be adopted by the faculty. Easter-tide is almost as much of a holiday all over the country as Christmas. Schools and colleges close their doors and grant a vacation for several days, if not for a week. And why should Harvard cling so persistently to the old rule by which Fast Day regulates our vacation? Harvard has before this found occasion to consult the wishes of her undergraduates, and she has not regretted it. Could she not listen to this little appeal from A LAW SCHOOL...
...fact that the rigorously-minded instructors have not departed one jot or one tittle from their ancient rigor. I think I may safely say that I voice the opinion of the majority of the students (not that the majority have been dropped), when I urge that, if we must cling to the new marking system, the letter D be made to mean a mark from forty per cent. to fifty, instead of from forty per cent to sixty, as it now is. For is it not a little hard that a man who gets an average of fifty-nine...
...exist. The reasons for this have often been discussed, and do not again need to be rehearsed; that they are insufficient is now admitted in certain high quarters where the admission would have been impossible not so many years ago. For a long time even Harvard seemed disposed to cling too tenaciously to the classical system of education, or, at least, in recognizing the value of greater breadth, to place English much further down in the scale of (merit than it deserved. But with certain changes which have been made in the establishment of honors in English...
...Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, has presented to this room a picture of her husband, under which is written his own verses. The "Fair Harvard" is one of the favorite recitation rooms in the Annex, and its appropriate name will undoubtedly cling...