Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college will welcome the course of lectures announced in the last University Calendar. It is hard to conceive of subjects that would appeal to the interest of college men more than the professions, law, ministry, medicine, journalism, teaching. Let us hope that every one of these professions is to be discussed from the platform in Sever 11 by as able men as the Rev. Phillips Brooks and the Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who are to speak on the "Ministry" and "Law as a Profession." We predict that Sever 11 will find itself more than ever unsuited...
...leave out religion in the teaching of our colleges, and as a consequence the character of the highly educated men who graduate from our colleges and erect such a powerful influence on the community is becoming irreligious. It is agreed that morality can not be taught without religion, so let religious truth be distinctly taught. The term, 'non-sectarian college,' practically means this: 'All Knowledge Imparted Here Except Religious.' The position that young men are likely to take under such a loose, half-hearted religious system, is that of agnosticism. The place occupied by religion should be honorable and unmistakable...
...Let us take a case in print. Suppose that "good" means a mark between seventy and eighty-five per cent. and "excellent" one between eighty-five and a hundred per cent. Suppose now that there is a book which one instructor would rank eighty-six and another eighty four, under the old per cent. system. Under the new class system the one would rank it "excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under...
...Let. - Desirable office in No. 15 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Can add two smaller offices and make good club rooms. Apply to O. P. Roberts, 15 Brattle Street, Room...
...Let. - Desirable office in No. 15 Brattle Street, Cambridge. Can add two smaller offices and make good club rooms. Apply to O. P. Roberts, 15 Brattle Street, Room...