Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty in deciding that the oration shall be delivered in Latin. It sounds as if it had been taken from some faculty report of half a century ago. Yet we think that the Record is more conservative than even its surroundings warrant. Its sister, the Courant, is far ahead of it in its judgment on subjects which are now agitating the college world. In speaking of the success of the partially elective system at Yale, the Courent thus says: "Our ideal culminates in an education which shall adapt it, self to the pressing necessities of life, and be in harmony...
...prospects in this event are far more encouraging than was expected at the beginning of the year. Two or three of the candidates are making remarkably good records...
...undergraduates and ladies. Upon reaching the bridge the party whiled away the inevitable long interval between the time announced for the start and the actual appearance of the crews. At this time the condition of the water was all that could be desired, though the fine, steady rain was far from comfortable for either contestants or spectators. At 1.15 the draw swung back and the junior crew shot through the opening, when, to the surprise of all, it was seen that the two centre slides in the shell were unoccupied. Inquiry elicited the information that Cabot had been obliged...
...other things; but did not (probably because it could not) do anything regarding the prices of the pamphlets and syllabi used in such large numbers in college. These pamphlets are necessary in a college course, and it is indeed an evil that they should be sold at prices so far above their real value, nay, so far above their real value, with a good fat profit added. Is this evil incurable, and must we always be imposed on thus? Is it not somehow in the power of editors and compilers of the pamphlets to regulate the market prices...
...entirely to this object, to be entitled the "Harvard Literary Monthly," and in the announcement made by the Advocate that hereafter that journal will devote a generous portion of its space to the purely literary work done by the students under the supervision of the instructors in English. So far as can be judged from present indications, both these schemes will be tested next year. Obviously both enterprises cannot be entirely successful. One or the other of the undertakings must necessarily defeat the expectations of the students interested in it. What, then, is to be done under the circumstances...