Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mead and Company) for February contains the usual pages of entertaining gossip of writers and books. There is an interesting article, biographical and critical, on the late Alphonse Daudet. The controversy over the hundred best books for a village library is continued in two communications, each holding a different view. Many recent books are reviewed at length by various critics...
...announcement of the initial action of the Corporation looking toward a union or alliance of the Massachusetts. Institute of Technology and Harvard, throws little light on the probability of that event, but is of immense interest, nevertheless, as showing that such an end is being held seriously in view...
...view of these changed conditions within the province of secondary education the ultimate principle on which Harvard College tends to act in the matter of admission requirements is this the College inclines to count for admission any subject which is taught in good secondary schools long enough and well enough to make the study of it a substantial part of a training appropriate to the pupil's capacity and degree of maturity...
...discussion which has recently taken place as to the advisability of permitting holders of graduate school degrees, whether or not they are graduates of the college, to vote for overseers, seems from the undergraduate point of view to exaggerate somewhat both sides of the question...
...much for the association from the student point of view. Its more important feature will be in the unification of graduate sentiment. The divergence of graduate advice in the past has caused much concrete harm. Accordingly we have called upon the graduates interested in athletics to band together and elect representatives whose duty it shall be to inform themselves of the facts and impart their opinions to all members of the association. We call upon the student authorities to fully inform our representatives, and we confidently expect that all graduates desirous of criticizing will first ascertain the exact state...