Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sole representative at the New York convention. Absurd and illogical as the preambles taken together with the resolutions confusedly are, by the public they are thought to be fully endorsed by the Harvard faculty. As usual, the faculty, I suppose, will keep a dignified (?) silence. This silence on the part of the faculty, is generally considered by those who know of the rejection of the preambles, to arise from either the faculty's knowledge of the weakness of their side of the question, or from the lack of a leading member who has an intimate knowledge of the doings...
...essay by "Tax" was thrown out from the competition for the Bowdoin prices, the judges finding that a considerable part of it consisted of unacknowledged quotations...
...recently presented by them to the faculty, or else to call a mass meeting of the whole college to consider and take action in the matter. The question, as our correspondent says, is one of vital importance and as such deserves the fullest publicity and frankest treatment on the part of all concerned in it, faculty, students, and athletic organizations. Moreover we have obvious reasons for believing that in so important a matter action taken in mass meeting of the entire college would be likely to have more weight with the faculty and probably elsewhere, than the secret petition...
...doubt that student sentiment would have stepped in to prevent the repetition of such playing in another year. But the ill-advised action of the athletic committee last fall made it a matter of honor for the students to continue the game through the season. For my part, I can see no excesses to which the athletes of late years have gone that would not have regulated themselves without the interference of the faculty. Another objection we have to these resolutions, a very important objection, even if we concede the expediency of any interference, is that they were passed without...
Resolutions 4 will bring to the contests other parties than students, among whom "disagreeable controversies" may arise. The "controversies" to which the preamble refers have led to conferences among the students, which have not been without good results in improved games and manlier characters. Interference on the part of faculties with the progress made in this way, I should regard as unfortunate as well as very unwise...