Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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March 21. John C. Bell on football in general...
...General Walker closely held the attention of his audience last evening in the Fogg Art Museum in his lecture on the Efforts to Restore the Bimetallic System International Conferences from...
...teams, which is the system adopted at the English universities. The more obvious advantages of the former arrangement are familiar enough to Harvard students. In the first place the athletic policy of the University is consistent in its various branches, and the different teams are governed by the same general rules. Then much trouble is avoided by having one source of authority instead of many. Finally, experience has proved that it is a wiser plan to place the athletic interests of the University in the hands of a conservative body of men, some of whom are graduates, than to give...
...This lowering of the A. B. degree is unnecessary.- (a) No general demand for it-(1) Our most energetic rivals are not adopting the three year plan.- (2) Colleges which grant the degree on easiest terms flourish the least: S. M. Macvane in Har. Mo. XII, p. 2.- (b) Harvard is not injured by maintaining present standard of the A. B. degree.- (I) No considerable number is kept away by the four years course. (x) Number of undergraduates has trebled since 1860: Min. Rep., p. 18.- (2) No loss of prestige.- (c) Advatages of three years system are already secured...
...Lack of endowment would not enable them to meet the new competition.- (3) Instead of being feeders to the University they would be extinguished.- (c) To Harvard.- (1) It sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause of education in general.- (I) The A. B. degree is standard of liberal education; C. W. Eliot, in Century, June, 1884, p. 203.- (2) Standard is proposed to be lowered by our foremost university...