Word: pres
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BATTEN, Pres...
...recent anniversary of Johns Hopkins University, one of the chief features of the day was an address by Pres. Eliot. A full report of the address has not yet been printed. We print below an abstract of President Eliot's remarks. The subject of the address was "The Degree of Bachelor of Arts as an Evidence of Liberal Education," and its object was to advance that educational reform now in progress whereby the circle of "liberal studies" is to be widened so as to include, besides the Latin, Greek and mathematics, which were the staples of the sixteenth century curriculum...
Three years ago Amherst College made a set of rules founded on the principle that each student was received as a gentleman and would be expelled whenever his conduct proved that he was not. Pres. Seelye says it is the unquestioned judgment of the faculty that there has been a great gain in regularity of attendance and standard of scholarship. No punishments are prescribed. The misbehaving student is not sent away nor even shut out of the recitation rooms, but no attention whatever is paid...
...present, active connection with any form of "professionalism" and the so called "sporting world"-an objection which we still hold to be somewhat vague and ill-defined in spite of the arguments to the contrary expressed at this conference. We cannot believe that the alternative is so rigid as Pres. Eliot has urged. Whatever excess and whatever tendendency to professionalism there has been of late years can be corrected without such sweeping changes as the faculty proposes. A middle course is possible to this extent, that we can retrace our steps and place college athletics once again in the position...
...order by Mr. Parker, the vice-president. A letter was read from Mr. J. K. Bangs, the president, regretting his absence. No new members had applied for election, but means were taken, by which it is hoped other papers will be induced to join. The following officers were elected : Pres., Mr. Wakeman; vice-president, Mr. Norton; secretary, The Williams Athenaeum; board of reference, the president, the Amherst Student and the Acta Columbiana. The next meeting is to be held at Providence and the literary exercises for that meeting were given as follows: an oration to the Brunonian, the poem...