Word: speciousness
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...this worthy investigator forsakes all systems of espionage and asks the members of the Senior classes of several prominent institutions for their opinions on the value of college training. Of course the main difficulty with this mode of procedure is that the information is sure to be of a specious nature. Just now the members of the graduating classes are at the most enthusiastic phase of their collegiate life. The term of academic work is drawing to a close, and all are bouyant with hopes for the future. Thus all are sure to view their college careers in retrospect with...
...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 toward the A. B. degree,-a rather specious plea it is true, the plan is still open to serious objection. The faculty here say that the A. B. degree should represent broad, liberal training, and not the technical work of the professional schools. They have held to this conception of the meaning of the degree in their proposed...
...their mode of warfare to fall upon an unarmed band of men and massacre the entire party. Originally they did this as the only means of getting back their country from the Whites. When they saw the hopelessness of their task, they were won over by the specious promises of the white men to care for and feed them. Now they are becoming more civilized and like to see their children enjoying the advantages of that education which is denied themselves on account of their age. The Apaches are more cruel and relentless towards those who fall into their power...
...board but have as yet not offered work sufficient to justify the board in their election. Clear, concise writing and a liberal endowment of commonsense with a determination to work are necessary above all. We speak thus plainly because for weeks we have been flooded with communications and specious editorials meant for publication but which we have been unable to offer to our readers for evident reasons. Two editors will be elected to the paper at the close of the mid-years. All who wish to be considered candidates of such election are requested to contribute what they desire...
...threw the coal. He contends that the whole party are liable. It is becoming altogether too common a practice to be longer countenanced by college men for careless brutality, and the infliction of personal indignities, to be resorted to by unruly students with perfect freedom from impunity under the specious pretext of "hazing." This condition of affairs must be reformed by some means or other. If college students themselves do not see and appreciate this fact, and if there is no other way to convince them of it, measures as stern and decisive as the summary arrest and punishment...