Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...into Greek. The reading by the students was followed by an exposition of the passages, which was given by the President, who concluded with prayer. On one occasion, when President Rogers officiated, his prayer was not so long by half as usual; and Cotton Mather remarked, "Heaven knows the Reason! The scholars returning to their chambers, found one of them on fire and the Fire had proceeded so far, that if the Devotions had held three Minutes longer, the Colledge had been irrecoverably laid in Ashes, which now was happily preserved." A peculiar feature of morning prayers at this period...
...Dane Hall, College House or Wadsworth House is highly impracticable. In Dane Hall are the Bursar's offices and the Co-operative Society's rooms. From the stores on the first floor of College House the University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order to afford a site for a club which will pay only a nominal rent. As to Wadsworth House,-- historical associations so surround it and the ground it is on, that a proposal to replace the old building with...
...Another reason, according to Professor Ashley, "is that the scholarships are of too small amounts; that there are far too few of four hundred dollars and far too many of one hundred and fifty or less." In Oxford a "scholar" gets his scholarship by examination before he enters the university and then holds it throughout his university career. The result is not only to make the scholarships more desirable, but to affect the schools which, in England, instead of "preparing men to satisfy the 'entrance requirements'", fit them to try for scholarships. So Professor Ashley ends by saying...
...results accomplished have not been great, perhaps, yet they have been adequate to furnish the Association with a reason for being. The mere fact that nearly two thousand Harvard men who have left Cambridge and are occupied with the busy activities of life, have already joined the Association is significant as indicating the interest felt by those men in athletics at the University. This interest is by no means confined to the graduates fresh from college...
...University has lately received from Mrs. E. C. Hammer of Boston, the sum of $500 "for the purchase of Scandinavian books or books relating to Scandinavia." As it is Mrs. Hammer's intention to present the same amount annually to the University for this purpose, there is good reason to believe that in time the Harvard Library will contain the best collection of Scandinavian books in America...