Word: tends
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fourth forensic will be due on March 25. Subjects: 1. Ought the government do anything to aid in reviving the commerce of the United States? 2. What ought to be considered the real issues in the coming presidential-election contest? 3. Why does poverty tend to increase as the population and wealth of a nation increase? 4. The influence of religion upon plastic art and painting. 5. Define realism as exemplified in novel writing. 6. The influence of Aristotle on modern thought...
Finally, this rule, if allowed to stand, would tend to defeat one of the very purposes or which those who drew it up are supposed to be stiving-the placing of all athletic contests between the various colleges on a footing as nearly equal as possible. For the larger and richer colleges could afford to pay more for athletic instructors, and would consequently be able to get better men, than the smaller and poorer colleges...
...smaller colleges, being in a large majority, would hold the balance of power, the decisions of the committee would probably tend to favor the smaller colleges at the expense of the larger ones. We believe that the undergraduates are entirely competent to make all necessary rules, to settle all disputes, either directly or by arbitration, and to exercise a general supervision over all necessary measures in their particular departments. Controversies are as likely to arise between members of a committee composed of older men as between undergraduates, as the experience of the past has shown...
SENIOR FORENSICS.The fourth forensic will be due on March 25. Subjects: 1. Ought the government do anything to aid in reviving the commerce of the United States? 2. What ought to be considered the real issues in the coming presidential-election contest? 3. Why does poverty tend to increase as the population and wealth of a nation increase? 4. The influence of religion upon plastic art and painting. 5. Define realism as exemplified in novel writing. 6. The influence of Aristotle on modern thought...
...themselves coached by such a man. The objection mentioned in the resolution is that the crew or nine with a professional coach would have an advantage over crews and nines having no coach; that, therefore, professionals would be employed, if at all, university, and that this would tend to assimilate the "tone" of undergraduates with that of professionals, whose character is often low and whose motive is mainly mercenary. But why? Coaching by professionals cannot of itself make the motive of undergraduates mercenary, and nothing can prevent the motive of undergraduates being the desire to win, if possible. It seems...