Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves. But is it true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply...
...meanest man in college has been discovered. He scratched the address from the face of one of the prayer petition postals, wrote another address on it, scratched the printed matter from the back, wrote a private message on it and mailed...
Note-taking like every other great system beneficial to humanity gives rise to many evils. The note, however, is one of these and deserves little regard on the face of the earth. Another and perhaps the crying evil of the system is the "syllabi" published in pamphlet form by the Cambridge printers, and issued at prices which would put to blush the projectors of an average edition de luxe...
...anticipated for some time, and proves that the faculty are open to reason when that reason is well based. The past season, which has been so successfully given up to class contests, will prove to have been a valuable period of recuperation when the crimson is again brought to face her old opponents on the field. We have by this rest been enabled to bring more players into active competition than by any other means, and will surely profit by it. The 'Varsity eleven of next season promises to be exceptionally powerful and ought to receive the earnest support...
...English and musical courses; - all these are natural tests, and are also a part of the regular work of such studies. Such tests are, indeed, in many cases, already used, as a matter of necessity, by many instructors, thus proving the soundness of our principle in the very face of the present marking system. For no teachers more than these appreciate the utter inadequacy and injustice of the percentage scale, with its general average. Here, all feel the necessity of a coarse scale, say, with 5 or 10 as the maximum mark...