Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rapidity with which western colleges are approaching the high standard of the eastern colleges. For Harvard at this time such a fact has especial significance. We are now in the midst of a discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand it, one of the principal arguments of the opposers of the new plan is that the college should not give way to the professional schools; that Harvard College still has the same function to fulfill which it has always had, and that there are no indications that the college will...
...said that she was quick to build up her system once she saw the need it, and Yale rowing stands today on a solid foundation with a clearly-defined policy. Harvard, on the other hand, has a code not so clearly formulated. She has men who understand the science, but unfortunately there are factions that represent different ideas. In rowing, Harvard is sorely in need of leader and of harmony among her graduates...
...understand that the question which the H. A. A. Management have to face is a hard one. They say that they must look at it practically. They say that the only way for the H. A. A. to carry on its athletics successfully is to have firm financial basis; and that the only way to get this is to force members to join the Association. Whether or not this is the only way to get sufficient funds remains to be seen; but the one principle at stake-which, in this instance, the H. A. A. has seemed to abandon...
...article entitled "The Three' Years Course." It is in opposition to the proposed change, and is partly a reply to Professor James' article in the January Monthly upholding the new plan. Both sides, both the majority and minority of the faculty, are anxious that Harvard's friends shall understand and discuss the matter thoroughly, and they are taking every means to bring to them this knowledge. They want them to understand the real spirit which underlies the opinions on both sides...
...library reading-room. In behalf of this object we wish to say a word thus early to the authorities who will dispose of the bequest just announced. To no other purpose could the money be so advantageously given. Moreover, it was Mr. Conant's wish, we understand, that a building bearing his name be put up with this money...