Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considered treatment of the department of political economy. In Political Economy, a subject of live interest and great popularity, it is reported that the faculty expect to reduce the working force, while the English department, where the instruction, as far as the prescribed courses are concerned, has been notoriously weak, is to have a new office created for it, which will merely perpetuate an old system that has met with nothing but condemnation. The action even lacks the excuse that the appointment is necessary to obtain the services of some new man who would reflect credit upon the university...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Although the year is nearing its end, the senior class have as yet made no arrangements about admitting freshmen to the exercises around the tree on class day. Last year this subject was agitated somewhat, and gave rise to some very weak actions on the part of the senior class. The arrangement at that time was that the freshman class were to be excluded from the tree unless they won a game of base-ball with Yale. This arrangement is a similar one to the "fence" plan at Yale. But the propriety of such a rule here...
President Robinson of Brown strongly condemns Harvard's elective system. He says emphatically that "he deprecates the tendency in American colleges to become weak imitations of Scotch and German universities...
...Memorial one day last term, when he heard of the many complaints against the fare, declared that it was fully as good as Yale students got at New Haven. "In either case," he said, "the meat could be chewed, and the bottom of a cup of the rather weak coffee was not actually visible to the naked...
...opinion to that effect on the part of college students themselves, who are, of course, the persons most interested in the matter. will, without doubt, have considerable influence in bringing about a proper solution of the problem. If, on the other hand, as we believe, the arguments are weak and one-sided, there is no more appropriate place to expose their vulnerable points than at such a meeting as that of tonight, at which men who can speak from experience will be present and will give their views...