Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were too high it seems to me a most unwarranted proceeding to reduce them at this late date. The injustice of this measure is so evident, as was shown in the Advocate, that it is strange that the Faculty should allow it. If a Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late for the sufferers to take another examination, it seems to me time for a strong protest. I am not aware that such injustice has ever been done before...
...course. Men, whose positions on the rank list have been assured, will be disappointed; and others, if the plan is strictly followed, will be brought below the necessary 50%. The general principle on which this action is based is not a good one. If instructors are to have this power of changing marks once given, no one will ever know where he stands, and a man may be notified, a year after he has finished a course, that the instructor has concluded, on reflection, to condition...
...first game of ball with Yale, as many of us know, is to be played to-morrow afternoon, and it is our duty to give the Nine all the encouragement in our power by sending a large delegation to New Haven. The liberal terms offered by the New York and New England road make it possible for many to go who have been prevented hitherto only by the expense; and the loss of time need not be so great, for it is perfectly possible, by leaving Boston in the nine o'clock morning train to reach New Haven in time...
...them. Should janitors be appointed, we should still pay, but the College would employ, and in their attempts to serve two masters, one must suffer, and we should be the one; our dissatisfaction would make no difference as long as the College was suited, and we should have no power of discharging. In other words, the College dictates to us whom we shall employ, and kindly allows us to pay her servants. The men who do not employ a scout would not employ a janitor; while those of us who do would be seriously inconvenienced in the thousand...
...other hand, some men may wish to take the elective who may be unable to do so in their Senior year, or who may find it profitable to take this one-hour course for two consecutive years. If, as has been affirmed, Harvard men generally lack the power of easy, off-hand speaking, ought not an elective, intended to remedy this defect, to be open to other classes besides Seniors? Or if this elective is too advanced for the under classes, cannot something elementary be given...