Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers on Thursday, it was voted to concur with the vote of the president and fellows abolishing the chair of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek. This was the professorship held by the late Prof. Sophocles, and was created for him in 1860. We doubt if there was ever any great demand for instruction in Prof. Sophocle's peculiar subjects, and in late years the courses were virtually abandoned. The main monuments of the professorship are the works of its only holder-the Greek Grammar and the dictionary...
...question of more practical concern in regard to the inner administration of Harvard is that of the establishment of a system of examination boards-indeed the question of the entire reform of the present examination system. There is no doubt that with the development of the university system a change, which shall introduce some method of examination by examiners totally distinct from those actually engaged in the work of instruction, is bound to come about. The work of instruction and the work of examination should be separated by a line distinctly drawn; in themselves they have no connection. This matter...
...represent Harvard this year do not wish to take any chances to being killed either by ignorant starters or a crowd of riders on the track. Mr. Reed closes his article by urging the formation of an Inter-collegiate Bicycle Association. This would be a capital plan, but we doubt if the interest taken in bicycling in the colleges is great enough. In a few years will be the time for such a movement to be made...
...storage for their machines. The plan suggested by the writer of having an agency for the rent of bicycles would doubtless meet with approval by many who desire to ride occasionally, but who do not care to buy or have the trouble of keeping one themselves. However, we doubt if the college authorities would allow a college building to be used by outside parties. Still this latter scheme might be carried out somewhere else in or near the college. But for the gymnasium we advise the bicycle club to make a move. An earnest effort on their part might meet...
Notwithsanding the small number of actual contests there is no doubt that these will be warmly contested, as many of the men who are to take part have appeared as contestants in former years. This names alone will be sufficient to attract a large audience and we think that the access of the meeting is assured. The remaining meetings will, we hope, bring our a much larger field of entries...