Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meetings can be called only at the request of a majority of the faculty or student members of the committee...
...After a definite subject has been handed in, it shall be submitted to a committee of five, who shall frame it for discussion. This committee shall consist of two faculty members, two student members, and the proposer of the subject for discussion...
...Conference Committee, in spite of fears felt by many students, has demonstrated its right of existence. The improvement in the general character of yesterday's meeting over that of the last, is deserving of attention. The rules proposed by the senior members, can but aid in giving direction to discussion, and in preventing useless meetings. The resolutions adopted also show positive signs of life. These resolutions will go before the faculty, and will serve to bring an evil to their notice, in a manner in which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking...
...revised constitution. It is likewise probable that the report of the committee on the shingle will be presented. But in addition to the business, the usual debate will be held, and the question discussed will be the Percentage system at Harvard. This is a question intimately related to every student, and deserves our earnest consideration. The principal disputants are able speakers, and will undoubtedly present sound and convincing arguments. Of course a question of this nature will naturally provoke strong ideas for and against it. But no unbiased opinion can justly be formed without hearing a fair statement...
...arguments in favor of an elective system such as ours, this one of note-taking would seem to be most powerful. In the great majority of our courses text books are either wanting or are of only subordinate importance; and the student is made almost entirely dependent on his careful attention, quick perception and selective faculties to obtain in proper shape a digest of the instructor's lectures. These digests, together with the results of outside reading, give the student a collection of facts far superior to the best of the text books. This may be said advisedly...