Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than whether Grover Cleveland has maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best for the country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge...
...Cleveland has stood openly on the side of free trade and the speaker questioned whether he had been the clean, non-partisan president which he had promised...
...attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations regularly enough to warrant his remaining in the course, and if a warning proves insufficient, the student is dropped from the course. This method is as simple as it is effective. Cases will always arise when it is impossible for a student...
...committee on government "to consider and report promptly to the board upon the advisability of making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll-call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory; also upon the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory, and to report whether in their opinion any further action is necessary in regard to the general rules affecting discipline and studies in the university; and it was also voted to request the dean of the faculty to aid them with reports of attendance at college exercises...
...government, and that there can be no true church with-out bishops. No man not ordained by a bishop has any warrant for his ministry. This idea is based on the supposed unbroken succeseion of bishops from the apostles, transmitted by laying on of hands. It is doubtful, however, whether such a succession can be made out. The question is largely one of history, and not of religion. We find in the early church no definite organization, the members merely gathered together in fraternities. Afterwards deacons and deaconesses were instituted to care for the poor. From among the numerous pastors...