Word: showings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the matter of sparring on Ladies Day. Mr. Smith stated that good sparring was a manly exercise. He further said also that the large number of ladies present on sparring day was sufficient to show that they had no objection to this form of athletics. After a vote of thanks to Mr. Smith, the treasurer's report was read. This showed the following figures...
...courses as the old curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner in which many of us now map out our work. The results of our elective system...
...from chapel. To those who signed the petition in honest conviction of right, and to all who hold to their honor as gentlemen, such an imputation is as unwarranted as it can be proved to be untrue. It is now in the power of the students to show what they had in mind when they asked that they should no longer be forced to attend prayers...
...services of the colleges throughout the coming year may be encouraged and supported by the presence of a large number of students. The success of the new regime is wholly dependent upon the support given it by the students at whose desire it has been instituted; and unless they show a warm interest in the efforts of the religious directors of the college, such success can scarcely be looked...
...whose end is secrecy and exclusiveness," a decrease in the monetary support of all athletic teams as well as the secondary expenses incurred by a personal support; and finally the discontinuance of all inter-collegiate contests. Now little knowledge of Harvard or of any great university is needed to show the utter impossibility of accomplishing such fundamental reforms without the strictest regulations upon the part of the faculty, seconded by the most determined stand made by parents; and, what is more, by a thorough reform of the personal character of the students themselves. It is true that great and needless...