Word: election
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spirit of the elective system is well exemplified by the trend of work in the Graduate School where three quarters of the members study the languages and the moral sciences as against one-quarter who pursue mathematics and the physical and natural sciences. In the College the tendency seems to be fully as marked; the undergraduate must be forcibly interested in mathematics and the sciences. There is no indication that the average undergraduate who finds courses in the languages and moral sciences both entertaining and contributory to refinement and culture, will freely elect courses in those sciences which are purely...
...early life Phillips Brooks was not a leader, and he failed completely as a teacher, so that his later power seems almost a gift from the Almighty. This power had its source in his knowledge, love and worship of God. The power became his, because he chose to elect spiritual light as his life work. Thus the Phillips Brooks House becomes an addition to Harvard, with an influence to broaden and complete other more intellectual influences...
...Resolved, That the granting of subsidies in the United States in desirable," and the decision was given to the negative, supported by DeBray's camp. The resignation of E. H. Letchworth as camp captain was announced. The next meeting of the club will be held on February 18, to elect officers for the second half-year...