Word: possesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact that the students of the college displayed a remarkable disinclination to hand us any items of interest for publication in our columns, we feel justified in again calling attention to the point. The CRIMSON is the only medium for the communication of college news which the students possess. The editors of the paper, though giving all the attention possible to college happenings, are but students, after all, and have the same amount of college work to perform as their more fortunate brethren who are in no way connected with college journalism. Obviously, then, it is impossible to secure...
...work to be accomplished in it, and the great size of the section demand this. When three weeks are given to one short poem of Johnson in a course which both in recitation and examination neglects the works of Addison through a lack of time, that poem should possess a higher literary value than any poetry that Dr. Samuel Johnson ever wrote. The work of English VII. is intended to examine the authors of a century. That century covered the lives of such writers as Swift, Addison, Steele, Young, Thomson, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollet, of whom no notice has been...
...consequently very good training and practice in parliamentary business will be acquired by the members. Such an organization as this, where bills are brought in, and motions to amend, to lay on the table, to put the previous question, etc., and all the tactics of partisan warfare are used, possess a great advantage over the ordinary debating society in their sharp contest of wits, and this in the practical experience, which such a vigorous contest produces. The experiment of holding a mock congress has been successful in several American colleges, and certainly ought not to fail at Cornell. The great...
...result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they were mistaken. The classics evidently possess sufficient intrinsic merit to enable them to stand on their own merits, without being protected in a way in which other studies...
...settlement of annuities upon college graduates to encourage and aid postgraduate study in special branches, is a system first introduced by Oxford and Cambridge. The various colleges of which Oxford is composed, possess about three hundred fellowships, which are held for various lengths of time, some of them for life; but marriage, ecclesiastical advancement, or accession to a certain amount of property, compel the holder to surrender his fellowship. The fellow is elected after a severe competitive examination, and is hampered by very few conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course...