Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complete control of their actions. Such control would certainly make them more careful in what they do. Amherst with her student senate having considerable executive power, has shown that students are just, nay, even severe at times, in their judgments upon their fellows, and there is no reason to doubt that Harvard students would be less able to wield power than Amherst men. If executive power similar to that exercised by the Amherst senate should be granted to the students in a conference committee where they would be aided by the advice of several gentlemen of the faculty, even that...
...that our correspondent of yesterday is quite right in his complaint against the low range of marks adopted in a certain German course. The suggestion that a fixed amount, say five or ten, or a certain percentage be added to each mark has considerable weight. There can be no doubt that the greatest evil of the marking system is that no unity or equality of standards, seems to be attained by the body of instructors. Fifty per cent. with Prof. A may often be set against seventy or seventy-five per cent. with Prof. B; in courses which require very...
...been expected for some time. The plans of these liberals are rapidly taking definite shape, and what they propose to do in case they find themselves in the majority, is stated on the first page. Whether this plan will work the most good to the university many will no doubt question; but that it will attract a large number of students to Harvard is most probable, and in this way at least, the change will conduce to the advantage of the university...
First Under-graduate (reading out) : "Will this do, Gus? 'Mr. Smith presents his compliments to Mr. Jones, and finds he has a cap which isn't mine. So, if you have a cap which isn't his, no doubt they are the ones...
...plan which makes it worthy of consideration is the provision that every class of college men shall be represented on the committee. That each class and each important athletic organization should be represented, no one will question. That the college papers should be represented one ought not to doubt, when he considers that they are the only means of communication between such conferences and the student body, unless, perchance, the conference should go to the expense of printing official bulletins and distributing them to each student. That scholarship should also be well represented is not hard to explain. There...