Word: statement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is the revised statement in regard to the requirements for honors in Modern Literature, adopted at the faculty meeting Oct. 30, 1883. The committee on honors in Modern Literature recommend that, on page 23 of the pamphlet programme of studies, Modern Literature be added to the enumerated subjects in which honors will be given at graduation off great proficiency. Also on page 24 of the same pamphlet, that the following paragraph be added : In Modern Literature the candidate must be able to read French and German with facility at sight, and must have taken two complete courses in English...
...destined to be most important in its effects on American scholarship and culture. There is a real demand for the school, he finding in Athens last October eight American scholars full of enthusiasm for study waiting to join the school. He made at great length an interesting statement of the historical advantages and stimulating associations connected with classical study in Greece and set forth the true aims of the school. It is, he said, in the spirit of progress and belief that we cannot afford to be behind other nations in improving our methods and enlarging and elevating our instruction...
...observe that simplicity of which the "Index" is an embodyment is one of the things dearest to the heart of a Harvard man, and I can not but say that I fully agree with you in that statement judging from what I have seen of these famed "Harvard...
...also let me tell you a profound secret (don't you ever give it away)-that sophomore editorial is never written by any member of the sophomore class-a statement, perhaps, a little incongruous with the one you made about classmates of the editors...
Prof. Whitlock is the authority for the statement that "juniors are not to be laughed...