Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under-graduates chosen from among the leaders in athletlc sports. The committee shall be appointed by the President of the university, for the term of one year. The committee shall report to the faculty at the first meeting in January of each year: and on all questions involving general principles it shall consult the faculty before communicating its decision to the students...
...been continued until almost morning. Should these manifestos be repealed and the entire control of celebrations be given into the hands of the students, as the committee proposes, there would be an end, we think, to such noisy and untimely proceedings; then every man will feel responsible for the general good conduct, and the disorderly spirits, instead of having to evalde the few stray watch men, will find their movements watched by the large body of orderloving students. At other colleges when such liberty has been allowed, no complaint is heard, and it has been found that if students...
...days in advance, the track, usually in a poor condition at this season of the year. was put into fair shape for running, and the athletes were not bothered quite as much by that as formerly. But although the track was in a better condition than last year, the general management of the games was very lax, some of the officials being so incompetent or prejudiced that Harvard suffered the loss of at least two events...
This is the only course so far observed where the general work has been poor. The disadvantages arising from the system arose mostly from the hastiness with which the elective pamphlet was made out last year, and great care will be necessary in the future to guard against obscurity of wording in this important book. Many men this year took courses which they found too hard, or too easy, or directly the opposite of what they were led to expect. These dissatisfied men, together with the lazy, form the one objectionable side to the system as it now stands...
...Latin should be elective as in Harvard. He declares that no one should be completed to "waste his time" in studying those studies for which he has a positive distaste. He claims that the training derived from such studies would be barren in its results. He claims that "a general degree should attest equality of devotion and accomplishment in a curriculum of studies, adjusted with due reference to difficulty and labor." He goes further with regard to the classics in claiming that "classical proficiency may be distinguished in a degree, as excellence in science, in medicine, in divinity, in philosophy...