Word: talking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...advocates of the Annex make what, compared with the claims of the majority of people who talk on co-education, seem to be slight demands. Harvard is not asked to furnish a system of co-education, and she is not asked to take up a new and untried experiment. The Annex merely asks a recognition and permanent opportunity for the continuation of a work which has been carried through with success for four years under the shadow of our university. No revolutionary policy is asked of us: no changes in the methods of instruction. To quote from the report...
...begins today. will settle satisfactorily the questions which have been agitating the college base-ball world during the past winter. The meeting will have an opportunity to discuss intelligently these questions. The misconceptions which have been so frequent can be explained away, and a chance will be given to talk the matter over sensibly without any foolish considerations of sentiment...
...simple. There is reading of the Scripture, followed by a prayer by a professor appointed to take charge of the services for the day. This is followed by declamation by members of the junior class. The exercises on the part of the students are more varied. They read, study, talk and do any thing they may please, until some few are selected and made an example of. Then there is a lull for a few days, but soon the disorder becomes worse than ever. The rules in regard to attendance are very strict. No liberty whatever is allowed. Every student...
Harper's Weekly thinks that when college students cease putting wagons astride the ridge of gymnasiums, enticing stray horses into college belfries and climbing lightning rods after flags, it will be time enough to talk about putting up fire escapes for them...
YALE SOLICITOUS.There is talk of abolishing freshman year at Harvard, so as to reduce the course from four to three years. - [Ex.] But would not such an innovation also greatly reduce Harvard's total number of candidates for athletic honors? - [News