Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...office or any position on any committee becomes vacant for any reason, the vacancy shall be filled by the candidate who shall have received the next largest number of votes for that office or committee...
...rule that a candidate must have completed at least two years in a college or university was made by the trustees of the Rhodes will, but they have given the state committees the option of changing it, as has been done in this case by the Massachusetts committee. The reason given for the change is that in the opinion of the committee for this state the rule which it has adopted is more in accordance with the spirit of Cecil Rhodes' will. This decision does not, of course, affect any state except Massachusetts...
...head coach of Harvard football in the last ten years who if given an opportunity to coach the following year and the year after that as head would not have improved upon his previous record. But in settling upon a head for three or five years there is no reason why Harvard should not select the best man available among her graduates, a man who has made success in other athletic lines or in football, and a man who has the age and the acumen to work with boys and to know boys. This selected head must have the undivided...
...conductor. In fact so far does he carry his instruction in his students' orchestra that young men players have passed from that to the famous Boston Symphony Orchestra. Chadwick's orchestra meets once a week and the musical student who enjoys this sort of music or wishes for any reason or other to acquire a considerable degree of skill in ensemble playing cannot do a more profitable thing than join it, or if he is not sufficiently advanced to play with this students' orchestra he can at first join a preparatory ensemble class and prepare for the more exacting playing...
...most unexpected and unjustifiable attack on the class of 1907. You state that "the history of the class from the beginning, viewed from its negative or indifferent position on most questions which have intimately concerned it or the University, would incline the hasty observer toward the first mentioned reason (that the class is wilfully failing to take its fair part in the University's life and activities). This is strong language, and language that should either be substantiated or retracted. You convey the impression that the past history of the class is irrevocably wrapped in a dark cloud of failure...