Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the details of the plan will be received with general favor, no further move will be made by the committee. The resolution to which the greatest objection was offered was that which provides that no college organization shall row, or play base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse, or cricket, except with similar organizations from their own or other institutions of learning...
...more developed and better able to engage in the struggle of life. But in the matter of close training and drill, we are inferior. The German University finds its men prepared to build an edifice upon a foundation already laid There is no preliminary work done in the university except in the case of some studies which are not within the scope of the gymnasium, and even here the elements are compressed into a very few lectures, and the student is left to fill in the outlines by private study. An American will find himself somewhat at a disadvantage, when...
...special permission of the faculty, members of the St. Paul's Society will allowed to substitute attendance at the daily prayers of the society, during Lent, for prayers at Appleton Chapel. These services are held at 5.45 P. M., except on Wednesday, when they will be at 7 P. M., and on Saturdays at 8.45 A. M. It is hoped that a large number will avail themselves of this privilege. It is necessary to give notice at the office of intention to make this substitution...
...Civil War given each week shows that the military spirit has not entirely died out in this college. Why would not a course on military science be of interest as well as instructive to the students? Most of the men who enter Harvard are totally ignorant of everything military except what they may have learned accidentally from the perusal of histories. This is a country averse to large standing armies. Consequently corps of well educated officers and military schools where men are instructed to become officers are wanting. West Point is scarcely able to turn out enough officers to command...
...first they make no radical objection, except to the names of athletic instructors being put in the catalogue, assigning as a reason that they are liable to dismissal at any time. The second they would amend so that professional instructors may be appointed subject to the approval of the Director of Physical Education, or of a committee having such matters in charge. Moreover, they seem to be heartily in favor of professional trainers subject to proper supervision. They...