Word: objectionables
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that...
The presence of a professional in this sense, however, on the college grounds, if a man of good character might be productive of less harm than intercourse with technical amateurs of lower character. But this did not affect the faculty's position. Their objection was to the introduction of professional...
The only marked diversity of opinion between students and professors as expressed at this meeting seemed to be as to the possibility of pursuing any middle course under the present system. President Eliot and Professor White seemed to consider such a course quite impossible. Mr. Coolidge and others argued that...
The recent conference on athletics we are glad to be able to say, is likely to result in furnishing many undergraduates whose minds were previously more or less in the dark in regard to the present attitude of the college authorities on the subject, with a more or less definite...
The faculty's inhibition then seems to lie only against all present, active connection with any form of "professionalism" and the so called "sporting world"-an objection which we still hold to be somewhat vague and ill-defined in spite of the arguments to the contrary expressed at this conference...