Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...symposium is conducted on the question of reducing the length of the University boat race from four miles to three. The opinions of rowing experts, including former crew captains, are given and the unanimous verdict is that the present four-mile course is better for the man and the sport...
...report brings out well the success to date of the Freshman dormitories, although, as President Lowell says, no certain verdict can be arrived at until 1918 is graduated, and the effects on more than one Freshman class studied. The dormitories, without being "mollycoddle factories" as some sub-Freshmen liked to lable them before they saw them in operation, constitute a better environment for younger boys, than the old live-where-you-please system offered. Parents, who have hesitated to send boys to live "around," although such hesitancy was due largely to a distorted idea of the pitfalls of college life...
...Godkin Lectures on "Democracy and Responsibility" in Emerson J this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this lecture is "The Mechanism of Popular Representation." In his previous lectures Mr. Croly has compared the relations of the "Old" and the "New" Democracy to the Constitution with the verdict against the system as it now exists. This evening he will specify more in detail his ideas on American government...
Reviewing the period as a whole, we feel that the verdict will be that most of the efforts by those in authority have been well spent, and that they have accomplished reforms which are bound to be lasting...
Bishop William Boyd-Carpenter, Canon of Westminster Abbey, delivered the last and culminating lecture, under the William Belden Noble foundation, on "Dante's Verdict on Life: Its Significance and Value," last evening in New Lecture Hall. In this final lecture, Bishop Boyd-Carpenter summed up with deep impressiveness and remarkable clearness the essence and significance of the "Divina Commoedia" in "The Message of Dante...