Word: result
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...done well in getting seventy per cent, while another, working for honors perhaps, would think the same mark too low. Whatever may be the pleas for and against marks, as long as we have them at all, it is but just that the student should know the result of his labors, and that, too, as soon as possible after the examination...
...much as his circumstances permit. Moreover, the members of eighty-two ought to know that when they voted to row the race they virtually pledged themselves to supply the crew with the means; and they should feel that the rest of the University has also an interest in the result of the race. It is greatly to be hoped, therefore, that eighty-two will soon make up the deficiency, so that the crew may be able to meet Columbia on an even footing...
...will give young women the same college advantages that young men have at present. The plan is a good one, and we hope that it will receive every encouragement. Higher education for women is what the society of this country most needs. But if ever this plan tends to result, as some of its supporters hope it will, in the admission of women to Harvard, then it should be vigorously opposed. At the threshold of the recitation-room the line must be drawn. By all means let the girls have the advantages which we possess. We should be glad...
WHEN the Faculty decided to extend to Juniors the privilege of voluntary recitations, it was not without some apprehension that the friends of this new rule watched the result of its application to any other than the highest class. But every Junior who has at heart his own interests, as well as a proper regard for the reputation and prosperity of Harvard, and a desire for her success in the reform methods which she has undertaken to introduce, must have appreciated the responsibility thrown upon his shoulders during this trial-year of a system which relieves him from the slavery...
...knows, however disinclined some may be, for very obvious reasons, to acknowledge or speak of it. Not only is the average system often unjust, but it is calculated, in the case of those students who strive only for marks, to work serious evil. The only way to avoid this result is courageously to sacrifice college rank to more solid advantages in after life...