Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Globe is authority for the statement that the recent meeting of the Harvard Bicycle Club was not sanctioned...
...anyone who has ever had an examination in U. E. R. on a hot June day, it will be an unnecessary statement for us to make when we say that an examination held in that room is rather a test of physical endurance than of knowledge. But there seems to be such ignorance among those who have charge of our examinations in regard to the ventilation of this room that year by year examinations are held in it in spite of the great heat and the bad air which are its chief characteristics. We wish to publicly call attention...
4One of the most important literary contribution a Harvard man has made of late years so a treatise just issued on the "Law of Private Corporations" having capital stock, by Henry O. Taylor, '78. The object of this treatise is to give an accurate statement of the law regulating business enterprises which are prosecuted through the instrumentality of corporate organization; to define the rights and liabilities of the different classes of persons interested; and to treat of those rights and liabilities according to the manner in which they come before the courts for determination. To accomplish this the writer, having...
...student is often persuaded to elect a course, not from the feeling that it will do him the greatest good, but because it is conducted by his old professor. We believe the new pamphlets will correct this state of affairs, however, as they give a clear straightforward statement of the various courses and above all do not unduly influence the student. If it might be suggested that each instructor would give a short lecture on the electives under his charge, we believe that the aid offered the students with this addition would be nearly all that is possible. In such...
...match this spring, for every effort was made to induce Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College of the City of New York to put rifle teams into training to shoot for the college championship. Each of these colleges answered the letters that were sent them with the statement that it was too late in the season to make any arrangements for a match. We are inclined to think that our own club was a little late in writing to these colleges, for a good rifle team cannot be put before the target on a moment's notice...