Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HISTORY 18. The committee appointed to consult with Dr. Hart on the question of a printed outline of the course, request that at the next lecture (Tuesday) the members of the section hand to to the committee slips of paper bearing their names, and stating whether they wish the shorter outline, ($1.00), or the more complete outline. ($2.00). The committee suggest that the more complete outline be adopted...
...that the occupant of room No. 37 had had his chandelier broken off the evening before, and had stopped up the broken pipe with a wooden plug. To his astonishment when he woke up at quarter of eight yesterday morning, his room was filled of gas, and to ascertain whether it was genuine gas or not, he struck a match, thereby having his doubts very quickly satisfied. The result of the experiment was an explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door...
...which they feel at reading it is perhaps a proof of its exaggeration? No. They accept it as true, and hold up their hands in pious horror at the doings of these college men, perhaps even while they are reading some other article in the same paper and wondering whether there really can be any truth in that. College life is not so black nor are college men so hardened as they are painted, especially not so when a poor artist in the shape of a sensational reporter uses upon the pictures a brush which has not been carefully cleansed...
...President Robinson is careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question, 'To what extent shall the system of electives be carried?' It is with him a matter of grave inquiry 'whether to exchange so widely, as so many seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students...
...Whether the Amherst system of almost complete self-government...