Word: proved
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...that be come by to realize that in almost all questions of the day the other man has nearly as good a right to his opinion as he has to his. Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes...
...Freshman basketball team will play the Tufts freshmen in the gymnasium tonight at 7.30. This will be the first game that the Freshmen have played against a team from another college, and should prove very interesting, the more so since the Tufts team is a strong...
...rationally connected work without specializing in any strict sense of the work. The Dean adds a table to show what percentage of the students who graduated with distinction each category contains, and this table will be found to be one of the most interesting of the series. It proves conclusively that many of the strongest students of the College abandon the Classics and mathematics for studies which seem to them more likely to be serviceable in the actual activities of modern society. These tables, as the Dean points out, do not furnish material for an exhaustive study of the elective...
...among them. I believe Harvard has little to gain and much to lose by compromising in the matter of entrance examinations. The colleges which have adopted the uniform examinations have reserved the right to hold their own examinations when they choose, and should the standard set by the association prove to be inconveniently high for any college the old and easier examinations will, of course, be taken by many of the candidates for admission. The college standards lower than those of Harvard will be raised but very little, while the Harvard requirements must inevitably be lessened by compromise with these...
...Fiske took up the scientific arguments for and against the theory of immortal life and from these arguments sought to deduce and prove the reasonableness of man's faith in the future existence...