Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the honor system of conducting examinations should be adopted at Harvard...
...time ago for the support of the projected infirmary. This plan was to provide an adequate yearly income for the infirmary by making an additional charge of $5.00 upon the term bill of each student. The arguments used against it were based upon the fact that under such a system the many would be paying for the few; that there are many who go home in case of illness, a number who, having plenty of money, would prefer not to go to the infirmary, not a few who never are sick, and that all these would be paying the expenses...
...over-charge non-members or run short for the year. Even if successful, would not the same objection hold true here as in the $5.00 a year scheme? Here again the majority would be obviously paying the expenses of the minority, and in any case under such a system the infirmar would always be under the disadvantage of having its debts in the present and its means of payment in the future. The five dollars a year plan might be qualified in-so-far as to exempt all men from payment who signified their fixed intention to go home...
...every way this suggestion cannot but seem unfair to me. Would it not simply be a case of the many paying for the few? There are many students resident in Cambridge and the vicinity who always go home in case of illness, yet under such a system they would be forced to pay the same as those who live in California. Again there are those who, having plenty of mony, would rather be cared for in their rooms or go to some private hospital than be taken to the infirmary. These too would be subjected to an arbitrary charge. Another...
...regular debate of the Harvard Union was held last evening on the question, "Resolved, That the range of lecture hours in Harvard College should be extended by a system of evening lectures...