Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Several years ago the University of the city of New York made a move in this direction, and Yale took the matter under consideration, but nothing was done. Cornell also agitated the matter, and the result at the present time is a course of lectures by a well known New York journalist. A thorough familiarity with the party-history of the country, and with the general history of the country and of the world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given...
...attributed this result largely to the jury system, which, by making the students themselves responsible for the maintenance of good order, has caused them to feel a pride in showing that they are capable of self-restraint...
...Rhode Island Harvard Club held at Providence, Wednesday evening. He claimed that the government of Harvard was intensely conservative and any undue precipitancy was thereby avoided. Improvement, however, had been made slowly but surely. Harvard was encouraging the students to do things for themselves, and as a result they had already organized and successfully managed Memorial Hall and the Co-operative. He also asserted that a good spirit of scholarship could not exist except as the results of free will and intellectual ambitions. The best discipline, he stated, was that of responsibility. The university is to train men, in whom...
...work, have the same end in view, and teach mainly the same subjects. Why is it then that this one assumes, and has a right to assume, a title of supremacy over all the others? At first there seem to be many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success of this moulding process depends more on the ambition...
...Advocate" on the conduct of one of the contestants in middle-weight wrestling, refers to me, I wish to be allowed to apologize through your columns. I feel that the criticism is just but I wish to say that my conduct at the time was wholly the result of thoughtlessness. Nothing can be farther from my desire or intention than to act in an ungentlemanly manner. I hope therefore that the students will pardon me for the offence which I committed...