Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selecting a representative body of students, but this ought not to prove an insurmountable obstacle. Surely we are not going to admit that we are unable to accomplish what other colleges have successfully done. If no other method of choosing a student committee seems practicable, we might imitate, in part, the system which is followed in the selection of the men for the great secret societies of Yale. One representative, or perhaps two, might be elected from each of our secret societies, from each of the athletic organizations, from each college paper, and from the men who are not identified...
...sixth theme in English 12 will be due on Monday, Jan. 19, and will be criticised by the students as part of the examination...
...resignation as the Advisory committee is regarded by the older graduates as a most unfortunate settlement of a disagreement said to have arisen between the students and the committee, a disagreement which they attribute in great part to articles that have appeared in the Herald, and that have created a most unjust spirit of dislike and opposition to Mr. Watson...
...this matter of student co-operation, and that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here at Harvard. The danger here is almost wholly that of indifference and sluggishness on the part of the busier, brighter, and more earnest, serious students, and for this reason an experiment would not be half so hazardous as the Committee seem to think. Let them have half the student representation elected by the more important student organizations and the other half appointed by the Committee after consulting...
There has been for some time a desire on the part of the faculty that their position in matters concerning the students should be better understood by the students, that their decisions should no longer be forced on the students without their giving the students a full knowledge of reasons and causes. Members of the faculty have continually felt that they were at cross purposes with the students, that the students misunderstood them and their motives, and that they often misunderstood the students. This desire for communication, mutual understanding and even co-operation, resulted last year in the appointment...