Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although there will be no question for debate at the Harvard Union this evening, business of importance is to be transacted. The election of officers for the ensuing half year takes place. To insure the election of men who will conduct the meetings in a manner consistent with the dignity of the society, every member should feel it his duty to attend. Often the success of such societies is imperiled at the outset by placing in office men who possess only the slightest knowledge of parliamentary rules, or whose interest soon fags after they receive the honor of an election...
...foundation of good government and that a university governed well must be governed in accordance with the principles of liberty. This university wisely has not very many rules. I do not know that I would have more than one rule in a university for the government of the conduct of students, - and that rule would be something like this: that whenever at any time any student is found to be not fulfilling the purpose for which he came to the university, the president of the university shall direct the parent or guardian to withdraw him therefrom...
Edward Everett Hale will conduct Chapel prayers during October...
...which should be noticed. First, we are sorry to be obliged to censure a Harvard player for indulging in a dispute with a player on the opposing team. This is a practice contrary to all Harvard traditions. It must not occur again. Next we feel compelled to notice the conduct of certain members of the visiting team. With utter disregard of all the rules of self-restraint which should govern a college ball player, these players badgered the umpire with such persistency that at last it became almost unbearable. For the sake of the reputation of college athletics, we hope...
...university of liberal arts and sciences should give a student three things: Freedom in choice of studies, opportunity to win academic distinction in single subjects or special lines of study, and a discipline which imposes upon each individual responsibility of forming his own habits and guiding his own conduct. In support of this position he cites the example of European universities, which received students as young on the average as the freshmen of American colleges, and which have had exceptional success by the adoption of the very theory which Pres. Eliot now so earnestly advocates. If a boy's school...