Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regard to the football games, we repeat that it is out of the question for Harvard to play a single game annually and that at New York. College athletics are intended for students, and the great majority of Harvard men would fail to derived any benefit from football if all championship matches were transferred to New York. A comparatively small number of men could afford to take the trip, and the enthusiasm of the rest would fall off when they felt that they were never to witness the one great annual match. It is enough to have the boat races...
...editorials" repeat the just complaint which has been made this year of too great a press of thesis work. The charge is laid upon the English deparment. A thorough discussion of the trouble and its effects leads to the suggestion of the following reforms: "Every considerable piece of writing should be judged as English." A limis should be set to thesis work "eyond which no student should go except by his own deliberace caoion English O and D would count for more than at present," and would "include all the theses allowed...
...their mass meeting, it is no wonder that the Yale students refused to accept the Harvard conference committee's proposition. They may well have been misled into thinking that the influence of the Harvard alumni would be used to carry the disputed points in favor of Yale, We repeat that college men and the great majority of the alumni are united in support of the conference committee's proposition, and are determined not to yield on any point. We believe that on further consideration even those graduates who drew-up the second set of articles will see the strength...
Professor Josiah Royce is to repeat in New York his course of lectures on Modern Thinkers, recently delivered in Boston with notable success. The general purposes of the course are to give personal characterizations of some of the most noteworthy modern thinkers; to suggest something of the nature of their attitudes towards the great issues of humanity and to illustrate spiritual problems of our day. The subjects are "Spinoza to Kant," "Fichte," "The Romantic Movement in Philosophy," "Hegel," "Schopenhawer," "The rise of the Philosophy of Evolution," "Idealism as a Tendency in Philosophy," "Fate, Law and Freedom," and "Optimism, Pessimism...
...tape and cumbrous regulations they ought to "quit." The example of the English universities ought to put us to shame. Every feeling but a desire for good sport and fair play ought to be banished from our athletic fields. Since one conference has resulted in a majestic secret, I repeat, I believe more than half the college would favor no league but a tacit agreement...