Word: statements
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sure that the communication from Professor Ames and the decision of the committee therein set forth will meet with the entire approval of the students. It is a perfectly frank, manly statement of the case which cannot but appeal to the highest sense of honor in our University community. The election of Wiggin to the captaincy of the nine, while an exception to the principle of strictly undergraduate captains, will be entirely satisfactory. Everyone has the greatest confidence in Wiggin's ability to take hold of the present situation in a business like way, and he may be sure...
Third.- Even if the Radcliffe College degree should explicitly state that the A. B. conferred is equivalent to the degree of A. B. of Harvard College, and if Harvard College is prepared to confirm such a statement, the petitioners are unable to see why the identical degree of Harvard college should not be given to the graduates of Radcliffe...
...cannot go further with the discussion here. It is a pity that a member of the University should give to the world so careless and unscientific a statement of affairs, especially when he shows by two or three passages in his work that he is not brainless, and might do better. Some of his ideas are excellent and worthy of attention; we would suggest to him that by his inaccuracy he has defeated his end and done harm rather than good, and that if he is going further with tale writing he will do well to take more time...
...following statement in regard to the new dormitories is valuable...
While no definite statement has been made by the Corporation, it is understood that they opposed the petition unanimously. The chief objections were: the late time of the year for beginning a scheme which would be essentially experimental; the liability to injure the field by embankments for the pond, and by the extensive drainage required; the liability to kill the grass by so much ice; the apparently deficient estimate of the expense of the work; and the inconvenience to those who have to cross the field. The Corporation has never been in favor of enclosures where admission is paid...