Word: statement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...statement is perhaps here due to those who depend partly on scholarships for meeting their expenses. A condition of stopping out a year is "to take up one's connection" with the College, and this was construed by the authorities in such a manner as to deprive an applicant of the Junior year from his scholarship for the Sophomore year. In spite of the assurance of the President to a member of '74 his application was ruled out, and this decision established as a future regulation. This ruling does injustice to such students, and it is hoped will be reversed...
...previous year. This, together with the encouraging increase of income from tuition fees and rents of dormitories, has brought the year's expenditures in this department, including the payment of a part of the debt previously incurred in altering Boylston Hall, within the year's receipts." - Treasurer's Statement...
More suggestive than any suggestion is the following statement, made without comment: "It has been a common opinion that prayers were not only right and helpful in themselves " (this part of the opinion, we think, has been generally abandoned), "but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call, and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence. It was, therefore, interesting to observe that the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline. There...
...regard to the correctness of this view, that Hildebrand was the true conqueror of England, several doubts arise spontaneously in the mind of one who has heard merely a general statement of the case. First, is it not better, in the nature of things, to suppose that William and Hildebrand had independent plans, which happened to coincide in some particulars, than to suppose that William was a mere tool of the Roman...
...good statement of reasons for airing chambers, see "Air and Rain," by R. Angus Smith, pp. 521 - 543. Longmans, Green...