Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is good reason for signing the petition. Those for whom it asks the leniency of the Administrative Board have been already severely punished. The principal motive of the Administrative Board can hardly be to punish them severely for what they have done; but rather by promptness and severity to put an end for the future to disturbances such as the shooting of fire-arms on January 26. But the petition now being circulated, if generally signed, will promise for a large proportion of the undergraduates, that fire-arms and explosives will not be used in the future. There...
...fasten on the Tree a wreath of flowers four feet in breadth. It is hard to see how a dozen men could carry off this amount of flowers, to say nothing of tearing them off the Tree. Moreover, there would be no object in carring off more than a reasonable number, for the simple reason that the men behind would not permit it, but would deprive their greedy comrades of any superfluous spoil...
...reason for the postal card vote was to show the Corporation the definite opinion of the whole class in the only way that would have any weight. After the Corporation Committee has definitely agreed to the proposed scheme, there will be a class meeting in which some form of Tree exercises will be finally adopted, and the question of an extension of the period settled...
...President declares that the management of sports at Harvard has been for some years "unintelligent, and for that reason unsuccessful." The fundamental defect has been that "coaches of limited experience, who may be either unobservant or obtuse, can override on the spot the advice of the trainer and physicians." "The remedies are the subordination of coaches to an expert in training or to a medical adviser, and the general adoption of more reasonable views about al training...
...annual report of the Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word: they assume that...