Word: tend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...That the already recognized propriety and justice of not enforcing attendance upon prayers in the case of some whose religious faith is not in harmony with the particular observance, tend to show the impropriety and injustice of making such attendance compulsory...
...these components must be slighted in order to enhance the effect of the other. By argumentative character is not only meant that one of two sides of a question may be upheld as in debate, but that both sides may be discussed, and it the arguments, fairly stated, tend to leave the question in doubt, the forensic will not for that reason be considered a failure. It is Dr. Royce's earnest advice that topics be chosen which bear directly upon the elective courses taken by the writer, and furthermore that the time which a man is to devote...
...election of class-day officers. While I by no means wish to imply that the present state of affairs demands such concerted action, I wish through your columns to impress on non-society men the importance of a full attendance at the election. This not only would tend to remove the idea that has become gradually fixed in the past, that the large absence of non-society men shows their hopelessness in contending against what has been already settled, but would be only just to the men who are to represent the class, and would denote a desire...
This is a gift that Harvard may well appreciate, and the significance of its having come from across the Atlantic should by no means be overlooked. All like gifts, aiming at special and advanced study, are always valuable to a University. If but few in number, they tend perhaps to be an aggravation; but if many, they cannot fail to create an incentive for higher study and indirectly to raise the entire intellectual tone of the college or university possessing them...
...radical lead of Harvard. It is to meet the objections of these faculties that Pres. Gilman's plan has been devised. This plan would, however, act as a restraining influence in more ways than one, if it were adopted by some of our smaller colleges. But it would tend to remove the objections now made to them, that their work in itself does not deserve the recognition of the regular degree. A plan which promises such advantages will not long need to be advocated before it is carried into operation, and if it is successful, will remove forever the troubles...