Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class has to assemble as a class, and in the past it has always been an occasion of much harmony and good fellowship. It is very desirable that the '90 dinner should be a success, and this cannot be unless every man makes it a duty to be present and tries his best to help on class feeling. The committee would like to have some idea of the number of men intending to be present, in order that they may make suitable arrangements. But as yet barely a dozen men have signed the book. It is earnestly desired that there...
...DENORMANDIE.HARVARD GLEE CLUB.- There will be a rehearsal in Roberts Hall, Monday evening at 7.30 p. m. All members must be present...
...spirit of the age, as revealed by statistics, says that the present stages towards professional life are too circuitous and slow. Harvard has her choice of resisting this spirit on the ground that it is too practical, money-serving, and unprogressive, or of bowing to the necessities of the situation, lowering her standard for the first degree and then proving her devotion to learning by making her opportunities for advanced and graduate work richer and wider than they have ever been before. If she does the former college men will grow to be fewer and fewer in proportion...
...bachelors long before they reached active professional life. Moreover, the graduates of the best fitting schools would by that time be as well equipped as was many a man of an earlier generation at the proud day when he received his degree of A. B. Even at the present, there are many graduates of these high grade fitting schools who elude the college altogether and enter the professional schools without the academic degree, without the traditional sheepskin. By their act these men are declaring that they are already in effect bachelors of art and ready to enter upon the struggie...
...satisfied by any action which the colleges can take, it is the senior year which must be sacrificed. After all, a Harvard junior is supposed to be fully as well equipped as the average American bachelor of arts, and by conferring the degree of A. B. on the present juniors, Harvard would not bind herself to give the A. M. for anything less than her present requirements. If money is an object, there seems to be no valid reason why Harvard should not create a new freshman year below her present...