Word: reason
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...minimum" of College academic requirements was mentioned in the President's Report and has been brought up again by the Advocate. The latter says that the standard should be raised either by increasing the requisite number of courses or by raising the passing grade. We can see no possible reason in the first suggestion; there may be wisdom in the second...
SEMINARY ON AIMS AND METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY AND TEACHING. Topic: "The Definition and the Training of 'The Reason.'" Professor Royce and others. Emerson C, 7.30 P. M. Open to all graduate students of Philosophy who are registered either in Harvard or in Radcliffe, and also to all undergraduate members of the Philosophical Club...
...just recently Harvard officially abandoned basketball and swimming, because they did not pay their way; and at Yale they are hanging in the balance for the same reason. This seems a disregard of the very essence of undergraduate athletics that is no less than amazing retrogression...
...reason for discontinuing the two sports named was not because they were too heavy an expense, but because interest in them had so flagged, as a result of inadequate facilities, that they were no longer representative or useful. The report of the athletic finances shows that all the minor sports are run at a loss, and that the amount of money expended on them has been increased recently rather than cut down...
...When the Duke of Wellington became Chancellor of Oxford he expressed regret at being forced into contact with so many literary men; and for the same reason I feel in an uncomfortable position. I shall now become serious despite the fact that when a speech loses its humor, as Dr. Gordon said, it becomes immoral...