Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...behave like one. He cannot calculate what per cent he must obtain in order to scrape through. He must either leave or drop out, either succeed or fail. Hence he does not "cram" for an examination with matter which he will throw away afterward, but studies with a view to permanent results. In short, he is free to be what his own talents and energy may make him. The result is known. It has made a knowledge of the German language indispensable to men of letters. It will be many years before Harvard can have a system like the German...
Regarding it also from an artistic point of view, - and this should not be totally neglected, - is it not better to do a little well rather than to do much poorly...
...decided position was taken by the president and officers in regard to the spring races. It was voted that negotiations be opened at once with the Union Boat-Club with a view of having a combination regatta on Charles River, to include the amateur rowing-associations of Boston and vicinity, this regatta to take place at least one week before the annual examinations, and to be open to sixes and fours. The Harvard four is to be taken from the second eight of the University, the six from the club sixes, after the spring race. The Union four has already...
...NORTON, on Tuesday last, gave the first of a series of twelve readings, in English, from the Divine Comedy, which are to be given in the Hawthorne rooms, Park Street, Boston, at 12 M., on successive Tuesdays and Saturdays. The object of these readings is to give a connected view of the Divine Comedy. Books for subscribers' names may be found at A. Williams & Co., Little, Brown, & Co., and Doll and Richards'. The course of readings from the Odyssey, to be given by Professor Palmer, is postponed, owing to his absence...
...view of the fact that a number of our undergraduates are strongly in favor of introducing at Harvard a system of scholarships to be awarded without regard to the pecuniary need of the students, it is important to know President Eliot's opinion on this matter...