Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your columns for announcing a new departure which the Pierian Sodality is about to undertake? Knowing how few are the opportunities that most students have of knowing the class of music which has been written for one or two instruments, rather than a whole orchestra, the management have thought that such an opportunity might be welcomed by not a few. They have, therefore, resolved to make the experiment this Thursday evening and hope that all those who feel an interest will show it by attending. The Pierian propose, then, to give an informal recital at their rooms in Roberts' Block...
Some of the colleges affect to disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate opinion should, to a certain extent, be respected. Indeed, this belief has been carried so far that in one or two instances attempts have been made to establish a system of self government among the college classes. Undergraduate opinion, it should always be remembered, is likely before long to become...
...facts of the case are that the Inter-Collegiate Association never asked for more than one vote and never desired more than one vote. Its object in asking for membership in the Amateur Association was not for the purpose of absorbing the association or controlling its meetings. It thought it would be desirable to effect if possible a community of feeling between the two associations, and so asked for an opportunity to be allowed to bring the views of college athletes before the convention of the Amateur Association. For this purpose one delegate is amply sufficient, and the College Association...
...suitable endowment, seems more than probable. Thus it is that it well behooves every student and graduate of Harvard to form as well as he can his opinion as to the advisability, not of co-education in general, but of co-education at Harvard. It is a reassuring thought that Harvard's policy, while it has always been progressive, has been at the same time wisely conservative, and we may be sure that hasty, ill-advised and radical measures will not be taken. But the mere introduction of co-education, in however modest and unobtrusive a form, is full...
...being found that a majority of the class preferred Botany, and it being impossible to accommodate all who wished to fake the study, the faculty devised the brilliant expedient of assigning men to either course by lot. The method of drawing the names from a hat, the faculty thought, was calculated to select men with particular reference to their ability and thirst for knowledge in either department. Strange to say, it is claimed that the elective system is not a success at Yale...