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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would urge every man who can do so to be present, and we would remind men that this meeting, as the ones that have preceded it, is a conference meeting, and students are expected to ask questions in regard to the subject before them. We are sure that every right-thinking undergraduate feels that the policy of the overseers, if enforced, would be a backward step in the liberal and progressive course of our University, and we hope that every man will make it his duty to be present this evening and represent the views of the students on this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/12/1889 | See Source »

...Either Harvard's high standard is right and should be defended, come what may, or it is wrong and should be modified. The demand of the professional schools to have men graduated younger will not be met by keeping the standard where it is, and cutting off the freshman year. Moreover that process would sever Harvard's connections with the fitting schools and leave her hanging to the stars. If the professional schools are to be satisfied by any action which the colleges can take, it is the senior year which must be sacrificed. After all, a Harvard junior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Effects of High Standards. | 2/11/1889 | See Source »

...handsome design will be given the winners, and similar ones of silver the second men in each event, except the tug-of-war, when gold medals will be awarded the members of the winning team alone. The entry list is to be closed on March 2, and the right to reject or strike out any entry is reserved. Entries should be sent to F. C. Walcott, Secretary Y. A. A., 31 South, New Haven, Conn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale and Second Regiment Games. | 2/8/1889 | See Source »

...remind the Princetonian that our "new system of college government" is still young, that it must suffer attacks for some time(?) but we firmly believe that the day with come when the wisdom of the step will be admitted, and President Eliot's course acknowledged by all to be right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1889 | See Source »

...women are to be given the right to vote, they ought certainly to be given instructions which will fit them to perform their duties as citizens. Naturally a knowledge of American institutions and of American history is of the first consequence, yet we find but scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economic Training for Women. | 2/6/1889 | See Source »

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