Word: existing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be treated. It should be their effort in such a position to reflect due credit upon the University. In the West where Harvard is often ignorantly or wilfully misunderstood, there is an excellent chance for the men in the musical clubs to correct any wrong impression which may exist. These are, moreover, the few opportunities which the graduates in the Middle and Western States have of meeting the present, active undergraduate life. Such opportunities serve excellently to make strong the ties which bind the graduates to their old college. Without strong graduate backing an educational institution cannot prosper. Harvard...
...Thomas Fiske, writing in the Columbia Spectator, says: "Two distinct types of the University may be noted - the metropolitan and the rural. Both exist in this country. Both exist abroad. Highly developed examples of the former may be seen at Berlin and Paris, and of the latter at Cambridge and Oxford. Generally speaking, the latter is characterized by a close relationship to the life of the student. It is said to stand in loco parentis. The university of the other type assumes no responsibility for the detail of the student's life. In both types, however, it is equally essential...
...aspect of Catholicism changed; Rome began to get despotic. At this time the so-called Decretal System was in vogue at Rome. By this system the Pope, by a decree could do anything he wished, practically. He referred to ancient rules for his authority, and if they did not exist he could easily make them, to suit his purpose. The leaders of the Church began to protest against such a tyrannical system. They formed the Concilia System to oppose the Decretal...
...standing committee whose business should be to watch out for western men needing advice or such help as the experience of old men can give to new; it might possibly undertake to devise means of extending Harvard's influence in the West and of correcting false notions which exist there about the University. The last, however, would be exceedingly delicate work, and perhaps had best be left to experienced heads. But the point which we desire to make must be clear, - the club should be organized for business strictly. It should undertake to do nothing which the many other clubs...
...Feudal System exist in England before the Norman Conquest...