Word: offered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...listen to every week in our different class rhetorical exercises. In too many instances these labored productions prove tiresome and entirely without interest. Subjects are frequently chosen which, from time immemorial, have been the favorite themes for our college literary stars. These furnish us no information, nor do they offer sufficient instruction in the methods of composition to repay the reader for his time ; and they are certainly in no sense amusing. The number of general magazines now published in this country is sufficient to serve the purposes sought by converting college papers into literary productions merely. These general magazines...
...rules of the Tennis Association, it is hard for any one to get a chance to play. This makes men look around for some other recreation and exercise, and I feel sure that many men would be glad of the chance which the formation of a Gun Club will offer. It would, too, in addition to present advantages, enable the students of Harvard to get larger bags of birds, and to kill more moose, deer, bear, etc., during the summer months...
...into question. However hot the debate may be, whatever arguments may be advanced, whichever side may eventually triumph, the great question of the advantages of a collegiate education remains entirely without the province of the debate. Our four great universities, with their many departments and multifarious courses of study, offer a field where each one can settle for himself the pros and cons of the Adams controversy and lay out his course accordingly. To Harvard, Mr. Adams' alma mater, with its complicated elective system, his strictures are least of all applicable today...
...work a man may do in college, and the faculty therefore should ofter every encouragment to men to undertake work of this sort. As a method of study in higher courses it is certainly invaluable, and it is no more than fair that a man should be permitted to offer his best writing,-writing which is the result of careful investigation and long thought,-as a substitute for forensics, which otherwise must too often be hastily and carelessly written on subject in which one can take no special interest, and to which he is able to devote no special attention...
...members of Greek 7 who are candidates for final honors in classics, will soon be given subjects for theses, which they may offer in place of Forensics. All juniors who intend to do this must give notice at the office before the first junior Forensic...