Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they who know best what they want, and if they wish the faculty to enact rules which they can heartily support, they ought to let that body know what these wants are. Some action should be taken, either by the athletic organizations, as heretofore, or a general discussion of the subject should be encouraged. We think that action by the executive committees of the athletic organizations would be the better way of accomplishing the desired end. They are selected for their knowledge of athletics, and are best fitted to discuss the subject, indeed, they would be the men who would...
...Thus, the corporation, the overseers, the Law School, and the Medical School and the various departments of the college, each says its word to the Divinity School. This step of the Divinity School is an example worth imitating. It is good for the teachers, because it leads them to discuss the larger relations of their special subjects; and it is good for the students, because they hear the best advice of a great variety of specialists addressed for once to practical problems and needs...
This petition should be made known to the students by their representatives, the executive officers of the athletic associations. The college as a whole should take action on a matter of such vital interest, and for that purpose a mass meeting to discuss the question and take action should be held at the first convenient date...
...lectures are to be given by gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view of the military operations described, taken by the civilian...
...Massachusett's regiment, we believe. He has written a book covering the subject, which has been reserved in the library for the use of those who wish to investigate the subject more particularly. He has made an especial study of the FitzJohn Porter case, and in his lecture will discuss the case in some detail...