Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tulin concluded the rebuttal for Harvard. Our opponents, he said, have jumped at the conclusion that we of the negative are arguing for a prescribed system of study. We suggest that men of broad experience in education know what is best for the undergraduate, and these men have given their opinion against free election. To show that the system of free election is not to be recommended we have pointed out that it is a revolutionary experiment in education, that the tendency in American colleges is away from free election of courses, and that the system has already worked evils...
That the subscriptions are unevenly distributed in proportion to the students financial conditions I know from personal experience; and I think that any man who has collected money from the students will support this statement. Many men on account of their college spirit, shyness, or inability to say "no" give much more liberally than they should; while many others, who can well afford to give, give nothing, because they appreciate the large credit balance or have less enthusiasm, or know how to put off the collector. Thus to some men, and especially Freshmen, this matter of subscriptions becomes a serious...
...Briggs says: "Among women's colleges Radcliffe College stands alone, for it has put into the education of women the best traditions of Harvard University. Its life is high and simple. That it is strong intellectually and morally even its enemies, if it has such, would admit. Those who know it best know that it is also strong humanly...
...Leavitt & Peirce's or from the following dinner committee: W. F. Emerson, A. N. Holcombe, F. A. Goodhue, J. M. Montgomery, W. A. Spencer, H. M. Wheeler, and A. L. Castle. Members of the class are urged to buy tickets as soon as possible, so that the committee may know how many will be present...
...rate I am), did many things which caused severe criticism, but they were all forgotten when the team which he was coaching won from Yale, I suppose that playing Filley at end caused more talk than any other one thing this fall. It was attributed to favoritism. I know Filley. He is not the sort of man who becomes the beneficiary of unfair methods or society influence. The graduates who were coaching the ends thought from the moment he began to play that he was the most promising candidate for that position they had ever seen. They said...