Word: respects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This equipment has been this day installed at the House of Engine No. 7 on Main street, opposite Sixth street, and, I am informed by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, is satisfactory in every respect...
...effect that "the present frequency of intercollegiate games is injurious to the scholarly interests of which it has charge." In order to show that curtailment of athletics will not improve the scholarly interests, that athletic idleness will not be conducive to more study, we must know in just what respect the interests are now affected. Is the standard of scholarship lower than before athletics became so general? Are the athletes failing to comply with the requirements of the Office? Are their records below the general average? Is attendance at lectures, both by competitors and spectators, affected by athletics? Are marks...
...Athletic Committee has approved a long baseball schedule and the usual football schedule, but when it comes to the question of preserving intercollegiate contests, they consider the advisability of eliminating the minor sports in that respect. Is it the desire of the Faculty that, contrary to their former broad principles, they wish to confine interest in athletics to a few sports? Is this not a narrow, selfish policy? Perhaps they believe that the club system will develop and the interest will continue in that form. But you cannot expect this to happen by quick action; it takes a long time...
...with the Union crest, in writing theses and taking notes. Possibly these offenders are acting through ignorance, but we are quite sure that their own note paper would never be used for such a purpose. Is the slight saving in stationers' bills sufficient compensation for the loss of self-respect which can but accompany such a petty breach of good taste...
...persuade him to go to another university. The boy writes for a Harvard Catalogue, and in it he finds much about entrance examinations, choice of courses, and dormitories owned by the University; and little or nothing about student activities, athletics, and private dormitories. With all of these points in respect to other colleges, he is well acquainted. He has never been to Cambridge, and cannot think of any friend at Harvard to whom he can write for information. He applies for a room perhaps in Perkins or Walter Hastings, both of which are attractively described in the booklet on college...