Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...affect the decision of the whole Corporation. We were willing to grant every possible compromise in the way of lowering the wreath or doing away with the '97 emblem, but this did not meet the vital point of the scrimmage. In short, we offered every possible alternative which we thought could be offered without destroying the old traditional form of Tree exercises with cheering and singing, followed by a manful struggle for flowers. These suggestions did no good and the scrimmage was still condemned...
...however, has, from an early period in the history of Harvard College been given honoris causa and has fulfilled a useful function as an honorary degree, as the names of its recipients (in the Quinquennial Catalogue, pp. 367-403) show. The University has not as yet thought it desirable to discontinue its accustomed practice in regard to the honorary degree of A. M., and for the present, at least, considers the question of maintaining this old and valued distinction as clearly separable from that of instituting...
...impossible to meet the argument on the ground of strict rights. But, from a practica point of view, that argument insists too strictly on private rights. It is better for the college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life...
...From the success of Professor Moore's exhibitions last year, one certainly might have supposed that a like series this winter would not fail to draw large audiences. If it is likely that a lecture will be meagrely attended of course no seats need be reserved. If it is thought that a lecture will be either well attended or crowded such a proportion of good seats as the lecturer thinks adequate, should be reserved for students. If it is wholly impossible to foretell whether the attendance will be large or small it would be little trouble to set apart...
...honorary degrees, it is interesting to note that at the annual convention of the Graduate Clubs, very few of the institutions represented reported in favor of the practice. At the same convention resolutions were adopted in regard to the granting of degrees. It was thought inexpedient to grant the same degree as an honorary degree as is granted in a regular course of study on examination; also that the degrees of Ph. D., Sc. D., M. D., and Ph. D., should never be given honoris causa nor in absentia; and that...