Word: soled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Academic Council, which consisted of the president, professors and assistant professors of the university, and was empowered to recommend to the President and Fellows candidates for the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. This council is now called the University Council and its sole function is to consider questions of university policy. The power of recommending candidates for the degrees of A. M., Ph. D. and S. D. is now vested in the faculty of arts and sciences, which consists of the former college faculty, and any members of the professional school faculties...
...views in politics-the leisure class. This leisure class, those who are more than well-to-do, is gradually on the increase and it is yet to be seen whether their increase is an advantage. It is a poor ambltion for the wealthy young man to make pleasure the sole pursuit of his life. He has a poor soul who does not appreciate that in this nineteenth century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing for the man of leisure to learn to know is first, that leisure means work, and secondly, that he must have...
...difficulty at all. To make an interesting competition he ought to be liberally handicapped Other events in which the circumstances are similar are putting the shot and the fence vault. If handicaps were offered they could be extended to almost all the events of the open meeting-fence vault, sole vaults, running and standing high jumps; running high kick, and rope climbing. We should not advocate offering handicaps if there were a prospect of enough entries by Harvard men to make the meeting interesting, but present indications point to the contrary. Unless a sudden and decided change takes place...