Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Royee has furnished the following sketch of the main argument of the lecture, not as a statement complete in itself, but as a memorandum for those who heard the discussion...
...above associated press despatch appeared in all the Boston papers yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bollis said that the statement was wholly incorrect and should be denied. Some time ago there was thought of some such arrangement, but the matter has entirely fallen through, and the above report is totally erroneous...
...find the "provisions for maxima and minima" of which President Warren speaks. He finds that there are four groups of subjects allowed at admission examinations and that the differences between these groups have mainly to do with Latin and Greek. Otherwise the requirements are pretty rigid. As to the statement that "many a student now enters Harvard who cannot pass the entrance examinations at Yale, Brown, Amherst, etc.," the writer of the letter says that at his school the preparation for no college is so severe as that for Harvard. He also says that many a tutor will engage...
President Warren wrote a short answer to this letter, merely reasserting his statement that the admission examinations at Harvard were easier than in other colleges, and protesting against making the A. B. (Harv.) worth 75 per cent. of its old value...
THERE will be a lecture in History 1 Saturday, November 29th, notwithstanding my statement of Tuesday, the 25th...