Word: consists
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which we drew attention was the course in the conditions of the workingmen. It certainly seems strange that while the rest of the world should be agitating itself over the problems of society, there should be at Harvard so few opportunities of learning in what the real difficulties consist and of studying the scientific way of solving the problems. This past year has been especially unfortunate in this lack of opportunity to study the social world, for the past year saw the absence of both the instructors who up to that time had conducted the only courses dealing with...
...work will consist of sixteen fortnightly themes which will be criticised in substantially the same way as English B themes, and there will be the regular conferences with the instructor. Besides this, there will be a certain amount of daily theme work similar to that in English 12. In the class room, lectures will be given on the different kinds of composition and passages from standard authors will be taken up and analyzed; themes also will be read and discussed and the students will be expected to take part in the discussion...
...class race this afternoon at 3.30 p. m. All who saw the exciting team races of last winter will be glad to hear of this new departure in track athletics at Harvard. The men are all evenly matched and the result will be close and exciting. Each team will consist of four men. All the classes should turn out and cheer for their teams. John Cook will appoint a captain of each class and the teams will be picked from the following men who have been entered...
...kept up to date, and yet, in order to avoid blind mistakes must be guided by the experience of what has gone before. The plan proposed to combine these two necessities, is briefly this: the committee which shall have the direct management of the athletic teams is to consist of the captain of the team, a graduate, and an expert coach; their arrangements are to be subject to the regulations of the Athletic Committee. While this in no way lessens the beneficial character of the Athletic Committee it insures in the management and directing of the teams a certain amount...
...Union has voted to hold weekly meetings instead of bi-weekly as heretofore. The extra meetings, which alternate with the regular ones, consist in informal debates on subjects to be announced by the president at the opening of each meeting. There will be no principal disputants, but the debate will be open to the floor for five-minute speeches. This action has been taken in order to afford a better opportunity to those who desire to practice speaking. There is a feeling at present that the regular debates are too formal; and besides many men do not care to spend...