Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seen, the merits of the plan rest mainly on the question, whether or not the consolidation would insure enough more alumni aid to cover the increase in expenditure, the decrease in individual undergraduate interest, and besides give materially increased help to the important non self-supporting organizations. It seems to the outsider as if this would not be likely to ensure and that more damage than good would come from "bunching" interests that are essentially independent...
Commencement Parts. Seniors who are entitled to commencement parts, whether under the provisional assignment, or on the ground of honorable mention, will meet Prof. A. S. Hill at 4 p.m. in Sever...
...larger part of these petitions are, of course, for prayer cuts, the rest bearing on our system of voluntary attendance at recitations - voluntary if we feel like going. Whether or not it is right to offer these guileful petitions for our prayer cuts, and, as it were, to fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia...
...first assign marks according to the percentage scale, and then reduce them to the terms of the class system. Now, in in fact, whatever reference there is to percentage is merely for the student's convenience in estimating the value of his mark. The instructor would naturally consider, not whether a book deserved eighty-four or eighty-six, but whether it ought to be marked "good," or excellent." It is quite as likely that a book marked excellent would receive but eighty-four, if marks were assigned in percentage, as that the case suggested by "Inquirer" should occur. The chances...
...also gain the gratitude and the esteem of their more unfortunate brother laborers, whose energies are wasted either in the practice of their profession, or in teaching to numskulls the elements of a noble science. A very eminent physician once said to a wealthy young man who was undecided whether to start a chemical factory or to follow up chemistry in a purely theoretical way, - "For Heaven's sake devote yourself to pure science; we need men like you, whose brains need not be split up in seeking for their daily bread...