Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the executive committee of the league had no right to pass rules that it should be given to any college. And under the existing circumstances he recommended that a new cup should be awarded to Harvard, and the old one be kept as the perpetual challenge trophy. This question will be brought up at the next convention. The success as well as the capital condition of the men at the Mott Haven games was justly attributed to the untiring efforts of Mr. Lathrop...
...would be required of him. Preparation, of course, is necessary if any success is to be gained, but one can always proportion his work so that he can profit something, no matter how little that may be. That oft-given reason, too much work, does not apply to the question at point...
...first two or four semesters, and calculate from the very be ginning on the ability of a paid "coach" to cram them up for the examination. The number of these men, however, is very large - among the law students certainly from one fourth to one third; and so the question simply is, Cannot a system of marking, without compulsion, be employed? To all industrious students this would be a matter of indifference. Would it not save the majority of the lower layer of our future government officials from that "bumming" which must occur when one wastes from one to three...
...because it is recognized that request was based upon principle. For any other reason such a request would have met with its merited rebuke. But now that it is established, that each student shall be allowed to exercise his own discretion in attending prayers, does there not arise another question of equal interest to the student and perhaps of even more politic interest to the university, - the question whether the present plan will be successful? It is hardly matter for surprise that in the opinion of many the abolition of compulsory attendance upon prayers meant the discontinuance of the religious...
...fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting student's" purse is further depleted by wagers lost on the game in question must be believed...