Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...make this last remark, because we learn that certain members of the class are already electioneering and organizing for the class day elections. Such action is an unmitigated evil. Class day elections, whenever they come, always have their ill effects; and nothing could show a worse spirit than such efforts, at this time of the year, to increase these bad effects...
Gentlemen:- My last letter, printed February 3, was fortunate enough to be noticed editorially. Regarding the statements made me by recent Harvard graduates, to use your language, "that the members of the crew are not chosen fairly or according to superiority of work," I am encouraged by your remark that "this is an insinuation which is entirely without foundation." It came to me not as "an insinuation" but as a very positive charge, and from a Harvard man who probably had nothing whatever to do with athletics personally. Thus you are in error in surmising the charge came from "some...
...question as to whether they are conducted at present in the manner most agreeable to, and easiest for, instructor and student. Now that we are right in the midst of the trying examination period, questions on the management become doubly prominent. And there arises, as a result of a remark attributed to a member of the Faculty, and also of what seems like perfectly good reason, the question, "Why do not the Faculty furnish blue books for the examinations?" Everyone has experienced the bother of having to bring blue books to classes before examinations. Especially is this felt...
Whether we are biased or not, many of us are of the opinion that examinations are at best a bad thing. But inasmuch as we have them and are now deep in them, I should like to remark a little on Examinations as I Have Found Them. There are examinations and examinations. In one kind, everyone in the room, even if he is not writing, has a kind regard for the feelings of his fellow man, and nothing happens to interrupt the thought of the workers; in this kind, it is a man's own fault if he doesn...
...hundred strokes a day in the rowing room with fixed seats and running up North Avenue. The crew will probably go over and try the tank pretty soon. The work is not especially hard but the men are going at it in the right spirit. One man made the remark that the candidates are showing more interest in the work than they did last year...