Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time has come when a fair discussion of the athletic regulations and the question raised by their adoption can be had. Both sides of the discussion have already been presented more or less completely. Student opinion is already beginning to form itself on the justice and expediency of the resolutions. Many have questioned the right of the faculty to interfere in the matter at all. But on this point there ought to be no doubt. The faculty have a right to act upon anything which pertains to the college or the government of the students under their charge. The real...
...preliminary class-races and in the preliminary training, have shown themselves equal to the trial. For a contest between the picked men of two colleges, a four-mile course is better than a three-mile course. The stroke rowed in such a race is less exhausting, and in every way is healthier than the stroke adopted for a three-mile course...
...required for the degree of A. B. at Harvard is twelve courses. It is necessary for the sake of justice that these represent a definite amount of knowledge. If the courses are not equivalent the one to another, one student who has passed in twelve easy courses may be less deserving of the degree than another who has passed in eleven course, but difficult ones...
...largely on what they observe in their own sections. No instructor would wish to condition most of the men taking his course; that elective in the following year would be avoided. If he finds the students are not doing the work assigned to them he is led to require less. Thus in the course of years each elective gains a reputation for hardness or "softness," and this reputation will attract students who will per petuate the same. It is a notorious fact that there are at present electives which no indolent student will choose, and others which few close students...
...majority of the lectures are to be given by gentlemen who were engaged in the operations described and who in addition have given particular study to the subjects of which they treat. Two or three of the lectures, however, will be given by civilians, but by gentlemen none the less competent to discuss their subjects. Lectures of this sort by such finished historical scholars as John C. Ropes and Dr. Channing cannot fail to be of interest, if for no better reason as presenting an instructive contrast in the point of view of the military operations described, taken...