Word: result
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates of ten or a dozen years ago assumed almost invariably an attitude of opposition to the Faculty. The reason is not hard to discover. All questions bearing directly on student interests were settled by the Faculty with comparatively little consideration of the student opinions on these questions. The result was inevitable. The men were told, "You must do such and such a thing," and immediately the natural dislike to being treated like children brought out the reply...
...members of the Faculty are far slower than others to relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond of sympathy between the instructors and the students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer. The very presence...
...policy at Cambridge to get out as large a number of men as possible and to devote attention to the second and third rate performers as well as to the stars. Since the formation of the dual league Yale's feeling has been much the same with the result that we know only too well...
...Harvard still has an advantage in the convenient situation of her track and since it has been proved that the number of candidates has such an important influence on the final result we hope that more men will turn out this year than ever before. Mr. Lathrop has developed many a winner from men who had not previously taken any part in athletics and he is quite as glad to see such men as those who have a few prizes to their credit...
...four-thirty or five o'clock? It is inevitable that students who invite friends to visit the University should choose an afternoon which offers some centre of interest. At present, the only afternoon of special interest is Thursday, on which the Vesper service is held; and as a result, Appleton Chapel is crowded by those who go there not to worship but to "look around." All true idea of Vespers, as far as they are concerned, is gone. If, however, there could be established a series of short afternoon lectures or readings, conducted by such men as Mr. Copeland...