Word: existing
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...Fourth Forensic will be due March 29. Subject: Can a designed event be distinguished from a result? 2. Which of the natural sciences is the most valuable as an element in a general education? Did man exist on earth before the last glacial period? 4. Would the French Republic act wisely in expelling the members of former reigning families? 5. What effect has a protective tariff upon wages? 6. What place among the great composers will be assigned to Richard Wagner...
...policy for the university. The students of the Annex manifest no desire for co-education. The element of competition with men does not enter into their aims. They simply want the best education they can get, and they seek it at Harvard because the means to that end exist there...
...late to say a word in regard to the entries for our coming winter meetings. There seems to exist a decided feeling on the part of many students against entering for any event unless their chances for success are more than even. Although it is natural that a man should not be disposed to make an effort when he knows it will be in vain, still when there is any possibility of winning even a second or third prize, for the success of the meetings, let him enter and do his best. At our fall meetings, in order to encourage...
...characterizing as childish the intricate negotiations which have been in progress for several months between Harvard and Yale; and yet he seems to be ignorant of the fact that these negotiations are carried on with the direct supervision and approval of three as "loyal Harvard graduates" as any who exist, and that these three graduates understand more thoroughly the positions of Harvard and Yale than any other graduates can hope to. Then follows the remarkable statement that as last year "the race was started by the sterns and judged by the sterns at the finish, it is difficult...
...regretted that more intimate relations do not exist between the faculty and the students, if for nothing else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...