Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ballots for overseers of Harvard college have been received from the electors at large with the follow result: Alexander Agassiz, '55, 1006; John Fisk, '63, 927; Edwin P. Seaver, '64, 853; John T. Morse, Jr., '60, 817; Roger Wolcott, '70, 428; Alexander McKenzie, '59, 344; George O. Shattuck, '51, 335; Samuel Hoar, '67, 333; T. Jefferson Coolidge, '50, 311; Henry L. Higginson, 310; Nathaniel Thayer, '71, 306; Moses Williams, '68, 299. These twelve candidates will be voted for to fill the six vacancies to be filled at the election commencement...
...seriously questioned whether this is exactly the kind of result which it is desirable for a university to turn out. We want men who can think for themselves; not men with an unlimited capacity of cramming down other people's statements, and producing what is called a brilliant set of answers. If a man really knows a subject, he is pretty certain to do badly when examined in it. A thorough knowledge of a subject absolutely prevents it from being compressed into the answers to a few questions. It is only the smatterer who can do this; the real student...
...class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both; who seem always ready to idle away an hour or two and yet always are on the rank lists. Such men appear wonders to their less favored classmates, who magnify into cleverness what is only the result of system. Yes, system applies as much to study as to business, or in fact any other vocation where time and orain must be limited in their use. Those exceptions in the eyes of their fellow students are not any more brilliantly endowed mentally than the rest, but they have...
...eighth championship game is to be played this afternoon upon Holmes Field. The Dartmouth nine, our opponent, was easily defeated, it is true, upon its former visit to Cambridge, yet the games it has since played have shown pretty clearly that the team is a strong one. The result of the game this afternoon is pretty certain, however, and we think that we are not over confident in predicting another victory for our nine. Luckily the game comes upon a Saturday afternoon, and the attendance of undergraduates, even though we are in the midst of the finals, will be undoubtedly...
There is another process which aims at the same result as cramming. It strives to overcome the same ends, but adopts different means. Both seek to prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It is simyly an attempt to carry into examination material with which the questions of the examiners may be answered without any regard to the student's knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing...