Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the Council's end should have come in just this way is indeed regrettable, but that the body as it was constituted should have dissolved is probably a good thing...
...thing particularly should be clearly understood,--that the underlying purpose of the new rules was to minimize the element of danger in the game. To this purpose the committee adhered throughout all its work, and it should be commended for its single-minded efforts in this direction...
...important article in the June number of the Graduates' Magazine is President Eliot's account of the late Alexander Agassiz. It is a memorable thing to learn of the life of a remarkable man from the lips of a still more remarkable friend of his. Even those who never knew Professor Agassiz are made to feel his extraordinary energy, his singleness of purpose, and his devotion to the cause of scientific truth. His life, one of the most completely successful in the annals of Harvard or indeed of this country, is a permanent source of inspiration and encouragement...
...thing that is clearly brought out in the accompanying discussion, is that the average undergraduate is by no means affectionately disposed towards the average "young instructor." This fact is not new--only last month it was effectively presented in the Advocate--and it raises one of the most serious problems which any large university has to face...
...early experiences. A paper was started at Eton in 1864--the first one in England. Its start was adventurous and so it continued for its short existence. Radical papers also had short lives; but in the sense with which we speak of American college papers, no such thing existed in English universities until within the last few years...