Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...direction and below the average in some other direction. In other words, it strikes a blow at specialists; and this, I conceive, is inconsistent with our elective system. There are many men within the writer's acquaintance whose average for the first two years of their course has been far above 90 per cent. but who have received in Chemistry A below 50 per cent.; is it fair that men, who, under the old system, would be entitled to a degree summa cum laude should be denied a degree cum laude? If in the change of regulations a higher standard...
...back to Cambridge in time for the opening of college exercises, unless we start several days before New Year's. It seems to me that the time has come for our Faculty to recognize in the arrangement of vacations that the United States really extends as far west as the Pacific Ocean and that men who live outside the sacred boundaries of New England have as good a right to go home for Christmas as those who live in the city of Boston. We do not ask to have the four days, which would extend our vacation to the customary...
...sentiments expressed in the communication published to-day relative to the extension of the Christmas vacation, are opinions which are daily gaining a firmer foothold in the minds of all undergraduates. In proportion as the number of students come to Harvard from the far West, the more does it seem that the faculty should acknowledge the fact by granting a longer duration of the Christmas recess. The faculties of other colleges, although suffering rather severely from conservatism, have, notwithstanding, had enough foresight, progress and liberality to recognize truths which have failed to receive attention here. The vacations given at Harvard...
...know, many will give up some benefits and enjoyments simply because they do not wish to take the trouble of the going and coming. A large part of the audience was composed of students last evening and it will benefit them in their general culture far more than they think now, - a culture which should be the goal we are all striving to reach...
...correspondent made in Tuesdays paper against those who desire a systematic course of reading in the course, is certainly uncalled for. Every one who has taken the same knows that there is a vast amount of reading to be done, and that the reference books are few and far between, compared with the large number of men who take the course. If it is often impossible to get the necessary books, what more reasonable request can be made than that some other method of study should be recommended by the instructor? It is an undoubted fact, too, that many hours...