Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held yesterday afternoon in Lower Massachusetts. Mr. Smith, the manager of the eleven, stated that there were $373 surplus, which he wished to put in the hands of the class. The principal topic of discussion was in regard to the disposal of this surplus. It seemed to be the opinion of the whole class that some sort of trophies should be given to the eleven, but it was difficult to reach a decision of how much should be set aside for the purpose. After various motions had been made and defeated, the class voted to set aside "one hundred dollars...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board it is expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning, with a moderate and fixed allowance for occasional absences. That attendance at the exercises of each course be more rigidly enforced. That the system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class. That the reports of the presence and absence of students be collected daily by monitors and daily entered on the books. That no choice of studies made by a student be valid if it call for more than three...
Columbia College has already followed Harvard's excellent example, and has taken a step or two in the right direction, as the Columbia faculty is also of the opinion that a call for courses in electrical engineering will soon be made...
...electing a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts for a year from January 1, and Messrs. William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee were appointed a committee to act in the matter. A letter from the committee to suggest names of candidates for overseers, asking the opinion of the board on the eligibility of the preachers to the university as candidates for the board of overseers, was referred to the committee on elections...
When it was announced last year that Mr. Clark intended to establish and endow a university in Worcester, Mass., a great deal of anxiety amongst the officers of the leading New England colleges was the result. Newspapers also took up the matter, and the current opinion was that Mr. Clark could have made a better disposition of his wealth by giving it to some college or university already well-established, than by founding a new university. Again some leading educators said that it was not fair to Amberst, nor to Brown, nor in fact to Harvard, to establish...