Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...similar change to that which some of those who oppose the three year plan here have proposed. It would not have the same effect as the change which the faculty favor, although it would practically mean a three year course. Such a change at Harvard would lower the standard of the degree very materially inasmuch as a man could secure his degree for fourteen courses instead of eighteen as at present. The Harvard faculty proposes no such radical reduction in the requirement for the degree. If it be said that the work done in the professional school does count some...
...scheme to teach the new men the proper idea of the recover. This was also tried for a short time on the '84 crew before they went on the water and it was given up as useless. The sophomore crew in 1883 rowed in the class races with a similar arrangement, but found it very unsatisfactory-they came in third. The plan is only intended to be temporary of course but it is rather interesting to watch the men try it. Strange to say most of them find it quite easy to get in their usual work, though some...
...were devoted, to him during his sickness. In fact he has received the greatest attention possible ever since the beginning of his trouble. The authorities have done all in their power to make his sickness comfortable. A trained nurse was procured, and Dr. John Elliot performed an operation similar to that performed upon Mr. Sawin last year. The students themselves did all they could to add to Young's comfort. His mother came on from Chicago, and President Bumstead of Atlanta University was also with him during his sickness. Young himself was a remarkably well developed...
...editorial mentioning the deplorable ignorance that students showed when questioned by outsiders about some of the great men now connected with the University. In addition to this suggestion that Harvard men should endeavor to know something about the most important of the professors, there might have been a similar suggestion concerning some of the older worthies who have had some previous connection with the University, and who have acquired such a wide spread fame that any man of average information, whether a Harvard man or not, ought to know something about them...
CALVIN BURR, Pres. Yale Freshman Navy.As is very well known the Yale freshmen have sent similar challenges for several years which have all been refused because Harvard objected to rowing a three-cornered race or two races or giving up the Columbia race...