Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under the old regime, a student, in order to receive promotion, was required to obtain an average mark of 40 per cent, on his year's work ; and men who were unfortunate enough to receive conditions, could secure their removal by attaining a like mark in such courses. The present change in the regulations makes it obligatory on students to reach an average of 50 to be entitled to promotion, and also demands that half the maximum reached in a course must be obtained to ensure the removal of a condition. This change is a step in the right direction...
...years ago, when the Hemenway Gymnasium was built, it was thought that the accommodations thus afforded would be sufficient to meet the wants of the students for many years to come. At that time the supposition was certainly warranted, for the athletic spirit among the students was a matter of much less concern than at present. Since that day the attention paid to general athletics has grown to proportions which would astonish a student of that time. The provisions made for furnishing lockers to the students were found to be inadequate to the demand as early as last year...
Photographic views of the crews in motion in the scratch races were taken by student amateurs...
...neglected than the Harvard Union. The approaching debates aimed directly at a discussion of the purposes and results of the present political campaign will furnish an opportunity for what, judging from the late canvass of the college, should prove a most highly instructing review of the political outlook. Every student should feel it incumbent upon him to attend and lend his voice to a popular decision. We who are the future citizens of the country can well afford a preliminary study of the present political methods. The close vote of the college should provoke a determined stand on both sides...
...EDITORS OF HARVARD CRIMSON:-It is an old custom of Harvard College that all her students march together in a presidential torchlight procession If this custom is to be kept up, after a vote of the college has been taken to ascertain in what procession she shall march, the minority should march with the majority; and to the outside world the college should appear to go rather for a spree than for any political significance; not only because such a purpose is more befitting the age of the students, but because then both parties could enter into...