Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...league convention, as expressed by a majority of the delegates, in this as in all other matters. When the matter of dissolving the league as it now stands and forming two others is brought before the convention, Harvard will have a perfect right to vote as she sees fit. Our relations with Amherst and Dartmouth have always been of a most friendly nature, and we trust that they may continue so. But we cannot think that in a matter of this kind Harvard should yield the indisputable right which she possesses of voting in the convention as her interests dictate...
...them. There is little doubt that the required number of names will be secured, but that is not enough. There should be at least three hundred men who will use the reading room. With this number an institution can be established that will be worthy of the college and fit to be compared with those at Yale and other colleges. Energetic management and liberal support will bring about this result...
...power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally vote the degrees, either with or without a condition, hand them over, and then revoke them, if they see fit, suggests a course of action which so intimately concerns the best interests of the college...
...cannot such a plan work here? And who is more fit to have charge of such an enterprise than our boasted Cooperative Society? Certainly railroad tickets are as much an article of competition as anything else. An agreement might be made with one of the lines competing for passage to each of the large cities. The additional traffic insured to each road, to the exclusion of others to the same point, will be enough incentive...
...system, the stale stock arguments being brought up against it, and aimed very plainly against the particular case of Harvard. "He declares," says this Boston paper, "that an American boy of eighteen is not competent to select the studies which will give him the most valuable training or best fit him for active life. Any one," it continues, "who has watched the tendency and effect of the elective system must heartily indorse Dr. Crosby's conclusions, in which, we are sure, he voices the earnest feeling of a large portion of the alumni of Harvard." We do not feel prepared...