Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reason for the increase in the number of dropped Freshmen, the Dean says: "My own belief connects the increase of dropped Freshmen with the increase of conferences and short tests in our large lecture though what may be called 'the greater Boston' contributed but two hundred and nineteen to a class of five hundred and thirty-seven, the same region is responsible for thirty-three dropped Freshmen out of sixty. If these facts 'throw a dark light' on Boston as an educational centre, it must be remembered that courses and with the corresponding decrease of weight given to examinations...
...ceeded fairly well in abstaining from head-long plunges into political questions, and that it has lost when it has attempted to mix in such matters as the Venezuelan affair of a few years ago. It may be that Harvard would support Mr. Lehmann, if for no other reason than personal enthusiastic devotion, in a proposal for international boating, or some kindred subject. Whether Harvard should support him on a political question, purely English is open to considerable discussion. Mr. Lehmann in athletic matters is truly one "whom Harvard men can never forget" but in political matters we also have...
...this country, for some reason or other, the facts have been presented in a very inconspicuous way by the press, and have not apparently commanded wide attention, at least in this part of the country. Yet it is not more than four years since the front pages of our papers were covered with the accounts of Spanish atrocities in the concentration camps of Cuba, and public opinion insisted upon the cessation of such brutalities even at the cost of war. It is but little more than two years since press and pulpit and public were alike fervently aroused because...
...most interesting essay to Harvard men is the one on "Education," which was originally printed under the title of "School Reform," attracting much attention as an attack upon the elective system in our school. Professor Munsterberg compares the American and German systems of education, in search of a reason for the development of the average German student three years ahead of the average American. By entertaining references to his own school days, he shows a perfect knowledge of German schools, and by his comparisons, almost as complete an acquaintance with American conditions. His conclusion is that the backwardness...
...actual management of the club is to be in the hands of officers elected by active members. Should the club for any reason become dissolved, the property is to be passed over by the trustees to Harvard College...