Word: views
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interest in rowing. To turn this dawning spirit in the right direction, to so direct it that it may show us the way to victory, is what we should now give our attention to. That this desirable object may be attained we invite every one to express his view, and we promise to give all sides a fair hearing. Those who disagree with the conclusions or the processes of reasoning adopted by any of our correspondents this week cannot do better than to tell us all what they think. Then from many plans we may select the best...
...view of the great interest and importance of the next Presidential election, we would earnestly impress upon those of our readers who have just come of age, or who will do so before November, the duty of qualifying themselves to vote at an election in which the best interests of the country are so deeply concerned. For this purpose we have made, from Prof. Parsons's "Rights of a Citizen of the United States," the following resume of the qualifications required in those States from which most of our students come. In all the States a person must...
...barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys "the privilege of attending voluntary recitations...
Long mayst thou view with glowing pride...
...hours of electives in one particular branch that they must choose between giving up the study of many other things and renouncing their ambition. The only remedy for this, that we see, is to accept proficiency in final examinations as an equivalent for so many hours in the tabular view. We cannot see why such a substitution would not be perfectly fair. If one man has sufficient ability to learn as much Greek in one elective as another man does in two, why should he not be allowed the advantage which his natural capacity gives him? The test by which...