Word: true
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...include the rudiments of business. It is a common complaint among those who graduate from Harvard, that they are obliged to begin at the lowest round of the ladder, and do the work commonly assigned to boys of fifteen or sixteen. This is, for the most part, unquestionably true, and as a partial remedy, the writer would propose the following plan...
...Crawford makes one true statement, that is, that Mr. Hammond was elected by a majority of the votes cast. I agree with him. Mr. Hammond was elected by a majority, but two of the votes cast were illegal. Mr. Crawford says that but one vote was challenged, but the truth is that two were challenged, whose names could be furnished if it were necessary. Mr. Crawford thinks that I referred to him. He is mistaken. He must surely know the two I did refer to. When Mr. Crawford says that one of those challenged was an excellent oar, he proves...
...true that members of the Faculty are to have a shingle...
...SEVERAL Boston clergymen," says a writer in the Watchman, "have been agitating theatre reform. There seems to be need of it. The lowest play ever put before the American public has been acted in Boston for a week or two past, and, if all the reports are true, the students from Harvard College have formed no inconsiderable part of the audience. . . . If there is not discipline enough in the College to keep the students in their rooms, the parents of the young men ought to know that they are out, and govern themselves accordingly." We are used to the misrepresentations...
...such a degree, that we are obliged to neglect other courses where instructors are more reasonable in their demands. In the first-mentioned course, too, we merely gain a superficial knowledge of a multitude of things, instead of a thorough understanding of a few. This is especially true of a course where, in addition to the outside work just mentioned, the theses (not mentioned in the elective pamphlet) are to be exhaustive, that is, to consist of a summing up of everything known or written on the subject. A thorough performance of the two of these tasks that are required...