Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that it is doubtful if the consent of the college corporation to the improvements proposed could be obtained if desired. A statement of the plans proposed by the athletic committee of the faculty, in another article, reveals what would seem to be a satisfactory solution of the problem...
...live to be ninety-six years old to profit by his wounds. Another very curious thing is the fact that if one dines out but two nights in the week beef is always marked twenty-five cents all the other nights of that week. I have studied over this problem and have dined out of the hall on different nights with the express purpose of testing the fact, but I am invariably caught, on my return, with boiled mutton and turkey wings...
...usually given, in selecting a course; but that with many this thought does have some influence, cannot be denied, and as long as there is no perfectly uniform system of marking adopted in the college, it is very reasonable that one should consider this factor in solving the weighty problem of electives, however unfortunate and harmful, theoretically, the practice may be. The marking system when in use at all should be merely a clerical devise for the classification of students, but when every instructor is permitted to ride his pet hobby rough shod over the necks of his pupils...
Three out of the four practical university problems of the day in England, stated by Prof. Bryce in his lecture on English universities, exist as well for Harvard to solve. (1) Rightly Mr. Bryce named the reduction of expenses for students as the first of these problems. It is difficult to see any way by which this reform can be practically secured for Harvard. On the contrary, it seems as though every year the necessary expenses of students go on increasing. That something will have to be done to remedy this evil before long is more or less apparent...
...appears commonplace, quiet and orderly. But few would suspect the latent wealth of stone-throwing, howling and sign-disturbing possibilities that lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth century civilization. The tenacity...