Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another meeting of the Conference has been held, and the result can be summed up in the one word discussion. A mass of information has been received, which throws much light upon the subject of discussion, - the marking system; but beyond this one accomplishment, nothing has been done. This seems unfortunate. The marking system in our college is unfitted for the elective system. It works injustice to the students, encourages an unscholar-like tendency to work for marks, and prevents the establishment of high motives for study. Students are dwarfed by it, to the low stature of grinds for marks...
...rich an unfair advantage, as giving the rich an unfair advantage, encouraging quarrels, and idleness, and vice. Let every man have what he earns, no more. Society should not be based on money, but on actual labor, whether mental or physical. Land, labor and capital, being differently apportioned, result in an exchange, which is controlled in the interests of the few. Also competition is a foe of the socialistic...
What is needed is that an administration be provided for the university which shall be efficient and progressive, and it is to be hoped that the present discussion will evolve some plan which will achieve the most desirable result...
...before us. In looking over the numbers from abroad we are struck with the attempts at depth of thought and at real argument. In many cases the writers have opinions, and show a willingness to express them; in a word they are not afraid of being serious. As a result, the magazines become something more than literary, and please the thought as well as the taste of the reader. But setting them aside and taking up the "Harvard Monthly" we are inclined to think that the name "literary" would be far more applicable to it than...
...recognize each other during the time while the term is in progress, but those at the head of each corps meet and arrange the duels, and the members fight as they decide. This fighting takes place every Tuesday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and, as a result, the students who have been fighting soon appear with their faces done up in cotton and carbolic acid. In these duels it is impossible for anyone to be killed, for the combatants wear about the neck and body thick leather pads, and thick glasses before the eyes, so that...