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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...used is the number of hours of instruction per week; the amount of work to be required of the student is left to the discretion of the individual instructors. They are of course not perfectly informed concerning the amount and thoroughness of work done in other electives; they must depend largely on what they observe in their own sections. No instructor would wish to condition most of the men taking his course; that elective in the following year would be avoided. If he finds the students are not doing the work assigned to them he is led to require less...
...anti-professional and express the extreme views of the Harvard faculty on this question. This is an aspect that does not require particular discussion here. In form the resolutions include well enough a complete prohibition of "professionalism" from college athletics. In this respect as in others their effect will depend entirely upon the interpretation given to them and to the degree of strictness or of laxity with which they are enforced. We do not see that there is any common tribunal in this matter, but that every college is left to give its own rendering to the rules...
...points of detail the resolutions are most open to criticism. We do not see the connection between such points and the general question of professionalism. The issue on both is not the same, and therefore in our opinion much better had been separated and not made the one to depend upon the other. If in any point, in these the necessity of amendment will first be felt. The prohibition of contests with general amateurs is certainly a foolish one in the sense that it is unnecessary, arbitrary and oppressive, and was evidently a concession on the part of Harvard...
...hard to educate up a public sentiment which shall appreciate the true importance of such higher centralized institutions which shall turn the tendency of endowments towards them. Thus it is that all these institutions like Harvard and Columbia depend for their enlargement almost exclusively upon a certain clientele, composed generally of their own graduates, who above all, appreciate the need and usefulness of such gifts. But such a fact too much indicates how slight a hold the universities have upon the class of other than college graduates. The idea of university education is popular; the application of it halts...
...operative Society will not continue to issue a bulletin. Arrangements have been made whereby it will occupy a regular space in the HERALD-CRIMSON for making announcements of interest and use to members. Members are expected to depend on these notices for all general information concerning the business of the society...