Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...numerical marks are abolished for elective work. As a part of the sophomore work and almost the entire work in the junior and senior years is elective, this change is one of great importance. The experience of the first term under the system is very encouraging, and the object of the faculty in making the changes-namely, to induce in the students a love of learning for its own sake and something more of a true scholarly spirit-bids fair to be accomplished...
Yale is careful not to send her best speakers. It is thought that if men are sent who combine common sense with intense earnestness it makes no difference whether they are speakers or not. The object of the deputation work is not exhortation or the discussion of theological problems, but simply to provide a means of stating personal experiences in a familiar manner. Athletic men have taken hold earnestly-a fact which has set students thinking, for they know that here, certainly, there can be no cant or hypocrisy
...proposal of the medical faculty to the Academic Council, that the first year studies of the Medical School be counted, under certain conditions, for the degree of A. B.- a proposal in which the law faculty concurred-had for its object the shortening of the college course by one year for students who should pursue their professional studies to the full limit in the Harvard schools. This proposal was discussed at the December meeting of the council in 1886, and the whole subject is still under advisement...
...Newspapers are conducted too much as if they were mere money-making ventures. There are some occupations which have so important an effect on the general prosperity that they cannot be carried on, with safety to the community, as if their sole object was to make money...
...consequent great waste of time is done away with. The greatest good, however, is that the university crew is no longer molested by the class crews, but has a rowing room exclusively for its own use. Up to Monday the candidates were still rowing straight arm, the object at present being to get a good firm position and a proper use of body rather than to acquire any technicalities of the stroke. The name, weight, and a brief criticism of each man is here given...