Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...head of our mathematical department, our classical department, modern language department and our scientific departments do not receive a salary of more than $4,000. These are facts that ought to be known, and they show a state of things that ought to be remedied. It is not right that gentleman engaged in one of the highest of human callings should be deprived of the ordinary social advantages which men of their culture and learning are justly entitled...
...fair discussion of the athletic regulations and the question raised by their adoption can be had. Both sides of the discussion have already been presented more or less completely. Student opinion is already beginning to form itself on the justice and expediency of the resolutions. Many have questioned the right of the faculty to interfere in the matter at all. But on this point there ought to be no doubt. The faculty have a right to act upon anything which pertains to the college or the government of the students under their charge. The real question is whether...
Another obnoxious resolution is that numbered five. This seems to us to be a matter in which the faculties are not called upon to interfere. If any man in any one of the schools belonging to the university wishes to play ball or row, the faculty have no right to say that he shall not. It is a matter for the students to decide whether there is any objection to a man's playing longer than four years. More, it seems to us to be a direct attack upon Harvard as a university. As such, it is right that...
...February 8 upon "Our Ranking System" has not already proceeded far enough to be wearisome to your readers, I should like to explain to your correspondent of February 13, the use I made, in your issue of February 11, of the words specialist and superficialist. Your correspondent questions my right to use the words as I did, in raising the remarkable question whether "a man who is not a specialist must be a superficialist." I certainly did not intend to say that a man who does not devote his attention to one subject only, can have no depth of knowledge...