Word: member
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days ago, to all the Alumni Associations and to many individual alumni. Already several replies have been received expressing warm sympathy with the movement and giving assurance of material aid. The executive committee of the New York Association have ordered the address printed and sent to each member. Mr. Johnes, '73, who has already volunteered to pay the architect's bill is a member of this Association...
...present under our elective system the students are not likely to specialize their work overmuch. He furthermore takes up the other side of the matter, and shows quite conclusively that few follow incoherent and aimless courses. Upon submitting to three experts his tables showing the studies of every member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, two out of these three men (not always the same two) agreed upon only twenty-one cases of seemingly inconsecutive choices out of the whole number of three hundred and fifty; but all three agreed only upon six cases. Moreover, it is very probable...
...Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration...
...There will be a meeting of the '86 Pi Eta this evening. As there is much important business to be considered, every member is urged to be present...
...connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday suit of some dark material. He had not been long here before he was summoned before a member of the faculty and his attention called to edict of the Bible. Being in straitened circumstances and not able to pay for a new coat, he requested to use his other suit instead. He was told that there was no excuse allowed. Rather than leave college he was compelled...