Word: towardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pres. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has make a plea to the various colleges to consider a plan by which an inter-collegiate system of granting degrees may be adopted. Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should...
...Lampoon upon the Advocate. While not in sympathy with the extreme view of the case taken by our correspondent, we feel compelled to express surprise at the tone of the Lampoon editorials. It has so long been the custom in Harvard journalism to exercise for bearance and courtesy toward contemporary journals that any violation of the established precedent is all the more noticeable. We sincerely hope that the editorial tone of the Harvard press is not to be allowed to reach the undesirable level which is to be found at some of our sister colleges...
...college on the young minds of its members; yet the accusations go on and state that even the instructors avail themselves of the privlege they possess in addressing the students in recitation hours, and by hints and sneers at all other religious sects, make the men more inclined toward the faith of the college. This is a view of college that is most amusing to all who are within its precincts and get a glimpse of the true state of affairs, and it is only on account of the antiquity of the accusations that laughter is restrained. Age has given...
...about Holmes' Field. These improvements, coming one by one in the last two years, have as a whole been very numerous and exceedingly effective; they have made of what used to be a by no means beautiful spot, a place that must now become one of the centres toward which all interest in Harvard is directed. A view of Holmes from any quarter must have a charm for every one, even the foremost indifferent and insensible. The surrounding buildings, all full of interest and some of them true monuments of Harvard's success and greatness, the crimson-uniformed nine...
...movement toward the better expression of the true literary work of the college, which found its inception in the first "Literary Supplement" issued by the CRIMSON, has culminated in the proposal of several undergraduates to found a new periodical to be devoted entirely to this object, to be entitled the "Harvard Literary Monthly," and in the announcement made by the Advocate that hereafter that journal will devote a generous portion of its space to the purely literary work done by the students under the supervision of the instructors in English. So far as can be judged from present indications, both...