Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are visited by a considerable number of people, and they also always visit New London once or twice. I think that most Harvard men would like to see the crew which represents them, presenting rather a more uniform appearance than if clad in the motley garb which would result from each man wearing whatever clothes he happened to have in his possession...
Whoever takes notes with care, even copying them after each day's lecture, is surely well repaid by what he has as a result of his labor at the end of the year. To own books is rightly deemed a great advantage. It is more true of making books. If to own is to profit. A carefully written, and thoroughly indexed note-book is invaluable. The student who knows how to take notes, and is ready to apply what he knows, can make for himself the most valuable part of his library...
...hope that some provision can be made in regard to this subject, if not for this year, surely for the next. If, by offering additional inducements to the writers of commencement parts, the number of competitors can be increased, this increase will naturally result in an improvement in the commencement exercises, an improvement greatly to be desired...
...college curriculum, making Greek and Latin elective after the freshman year, the cry was raised by the more conservative colleges that this would be a death blow to the classics, claiming that students, when no longer required to take disciplinary studies, would immediately cease to pursue them. The result was quite the contrary. Greek and Latin became, and have since remained, among the most popular electives. When the work of the freshman year was made almost entirely elective, the same cry was raised by the classicists. Again, as we see, they were mistaken. The classics evidently possess sufficient intrinsic merit...
...prominent professors whom the university lost by death last year,- Professor Sophocles, Professor Ellis, of the Medical School, and Dr. Abbot, of the Divinity School. The next important topic treated is the change in the required work of the freshman year, which, it is stated, is but the legitimate result of the development begun over sixty years ago. Under the regulations in force this year, freshmen are allowed to make choice of electives from twenty-five full courses and six half-courses, namely, nine in Greek and Latin, four and two halves in French and German, one and a half...