Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...matter of discipline. Granting that the attempt on the pump was a malicious one, the removal is hardly a punishment to the perpetrators. It is only causing very great inconvenience to those rooming in the yard, and others, who deprecate the attempt as much as the college authorities. We think therefore that it would be only fair to replace the pump, or else we suggest that subscriptions be received for a new one. GRADUATE...
...years, knows through their view, and the importance they attach to them, and is therefore in an excellent position to prepare men for their examinations. As it is experience of this sort which makes the professional tutor superior to the amateur, and causes men to demand his services, I think I have a right to advertise that merit. Sincerely yours, M. LE N. KING...
Professor Wendell says: "On the question of the adoption by Harvard of the uniform entrance examinations my judgement, in a word, would be to 'avoid entangling alliances.' I think that the efficiency of the English Department has been lowered by every attempt made to adjust its standards to those of other colleges or the secondary schools...
...completion. They could appropriately provide by subscription for the extra cost of the carving in wood and stone at the Harvard end of the living room, or for any other form of ornament considered necessary by the architect. The plain wainscoting has already been generously provided for. I think you would do well to call the attention of the class presidents, and through them of the students to this subject. If a committee appointed to consider the matter wish to make an appeal to the students I shall be glad to supply an estimate of the probable extra cost. Yours...
...special points in which the Bible shows the way of social reform are; by making us think of men as all belonging to the family of God, and as brothers, that it is the constant source of a spiritualized good nature; that it prescribes forgiveness and mutual trustfulness, that it leaves us free, making room for all fresh conditions of society, which we must meet as they come to view; that it is the book of hope. The perception of the Social problem and its urgency is the pledge, to those who have the Bible in their hands...