Word: order
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side. As eminent men as Professor William Knight, H. A. Perry, and H. T. Humphrey have vigorously opposed the movement against the competitive system of examinations. However, an effort will be made by the signers of the protest to bring the matter to the attention of the Queen in order that a royal commission may be appointed to investigate the competitive system thoroughly, and consider modes of examinations which will do away with the present evils...
...purpose of the meeting last evening was to decide about a dinner to be held some time this month. The members were called to order by the president at 7.45 o'clock. The secretary's report was dispensed with and the club proceeded at once to the business of the meeting. It was unanimously voted to have a dinner and after a short discussion it was decided to hold this dinner at the Thorndike, on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 20. The secretary was instructed to see all members and endeavor to secure a full attendance. On motion...
...body of minute regulations, to the broad life of a true university, in which great privileges are offered to those who will avail themselves of them, while in return each student is required to conform himself to such regulations only as are necessary for the maintenance of order and of honor and to satisfy his instructors that he is making a reasonable use of his opportunities...
...students jumped into their chairs, others began to applaud with their feet and hands. These actions were undignified and entirely unworthy of Harvard men. We are sure that those who took part in them do not realize that as the officers of the Hall cannot act as policemen, good order in the Hall depends not a little upon the self-control of every member. The tendency towards disorder is one which will grow inevitably if a distinct effort is not made to avoid all such unnecessary demonstrations as those we have mentioned. We ask those who have taken part...
...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 lectures or recitations on any day of the week, unless the choice has been specially allowed by the dean. That in order to make it more difficult for students to prepare by a brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require all the instructors to provide tests of the progress of their students with sufficient frequency to enable them to enforce effectively section 7 of the regulations. That...