Word: demands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the growth of Harvard the gaps in the curriculum which the university should offer if it is properly to fulfill its functions have become more and more conspicuous. A constant demand on the part of many students for a course in astronomy the college has hitherto failed to meet, alleging lack of funds. Since 1878 the faculty have offered no course in astronomy whatever. This year, however, a determined effort will be made to do away with this deficiency. Mr. Wilson, who has for four or five years been engaged in special research in electricity at the Jefferson Physical...
...slightest degree exaggerated. At one time we hoped that we might have an equable standard of marking, whereby one instructor could not say that "I consider my B as good as so-and-so's A." Such a consummation is plainly not to be looked for; but we certainly demand that at this time, when every course is beginning, each instructor will state explicitly a few of the general principles which govern his individual marking system. The slightest pretensions to justice require such an explanation...
...progress of Harvard athletics the wise supervision of this committee is vital. Together with the graduate advisory committees of the various sports, the committee has worked untold benefits for aur othletics. We should be helpless without it. The students realize this; yet they demand justly an opportunity to learn the relations of the committee - to understand satisfactorily its position, in order that they may take that same position and work together with the committee...
Professor J. W. White, chairman of the committee on athletics, gave a detailed account of the facilities for exercise and the advantages arising from it. Professor Lyon spoke of the religious aspect of the college. He showed how with the extension of elective studies came the demand for religious freedom, resulting in the present system of religious instruction. He dwelt on the value and need of the impulse from this source and the success already attained...
Reserved seat tickets will be put on sale some time this morning. The demand for tickets from the many Boston people who are accustomed to attend the usual "Class Day game" is already very large, and all of the reserved seats are likely to be disposed of very rapidly as soon as they are put on sale...