Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...question of the percentage to be required this year from Seniors has finally been decided. The old rule, requiring simply an average of 50 per cent for the year, has been suffered to stand...
...reflecting man would pronounce at once that such a state of opinion ought not to exist in "the foremost college in America." He would question whether the working man does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too persistent and unhealthy devotion to study, is not, on the whole, more worthy of admiration and respect than the "swell." I suspect that much of our affected contempt for a "dig" is a result of indolence. It is very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding...
...SHOULD like to ask a question in your columns, which I am sure many besides myself would like to have answered...
...small. The only consolation that I can offer, is the fact that the Rothschilds are said to complain occasionally that their income does not permit them to undertake certain gigantic schemes which from time to time attract them. Consolation of a more tangible sort is out of the question. Your allowance is quite as large as the family means will allow; so, during the course of the year, you will probably have to go through a good deal of pecuniary tribulation in the shape of accounts and economies of various kinds. But however bothered you may be about the best...
...consider it again before it actually goes into operation. It seems that new measures affecting undergraduates are not considered in active operation until they have been posted on the bulletin-board; therefore, although this vote was passed nearly six months ago, it has not yet gone into effect. The question of substituting it for the present regulation, requiring merely an average of fifty per cent, will soon be considered by the Faculty. It is of course impossible to state what their decision will be. We have a trusting confidence and a strong hope that, after being reconsidered, the new rule...