Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind was purely a result...
...proposed system "met with general approval," why was it not recommended to the faculty as a possible improvement over our present system? The difficulty is that the student members as a whole do not realize what is expected of them. Why does the committee exist unless for action, as well as discussion? Discussion without resulting action is practically worthless. To this fact that they do not appreciate their powers is due the result that three months of conference have produced two resolutions that, as regards weight of thought, could just as well have been passed at the first...
...Christian Brethren met last evening and elected the following officers for the coming half-year: President, H. E. Peabody, '87; Secretary. J. H. Ropes. '89; Treasurer, W. F. Brush, '88; and Librarian, F. D. Kalopothakes...
...said that the historian, Bancroft, is one of the only two Americans now living who ever met Goethe. The other is George H. Calvert, the scholar and poet, who is now eighty-three years...
Resolved, That it is desired that by this change the inequalities of marks arising from different degrees of work required in different courses, and from different standards of marking pursued by different instructors, as far as possible, be removed. The system proposed by Mr. Furber, and which met with general approval, was that of marking by classes, instead of by exact percentages. These resolutions passed at this meeting will be submitted to the faculty as the formal opinion of the conference...