Word: whether
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been shown by the CRIMSON news articles explanatory of the systems in operation at other colleges, there are a number which seem to have worked well and might meet with favor here. Whether any of these courses, prescribed or elective, counting or not giving credit for an A. B., are applicable, and whether the idea of a fixed course of indoor training is not dangerous in itself as discouraging open air exercise, are questions to be discussed at the conference this evening. It is to be hoped that they will meet with the careful consideration of many undergraduates, and that...
...Committee of Graduates thinks it extremely doubtful whether so large a sum as this could at this, or, perhaps, at any time, be raised by general subscription. The members of the Committee do, however, believe that a campaign of education could now be advantageously entered upon; and are not without hopes that some graduate may be found who would be willing to do for Harvard what has been done by the Houston family for the University of Pennsylvania. In any event, they would gladly co-operate in any effort to that end, and believe a beginning should be made...
...crowded that any new building could hardly fail to detract seriously from the beauty of the spot, to say nothing of injuring the rear rooms of Stoughton. These objections have been already urged at length in editorials of both the Monthly and CRIMSON, and in fact by every person, whether graduate or undergraduate, to whom I have mentioned the matter. It is one in which we are all of necessity interested, yet the authorities in charge have not thus far seen fit to vouchsafe us the slightest explanation. Much as the new building ought to prove a distinct addition...
...during the mid-years would at the best be very irregular, it has been omitted entirely. After the examinations, however, work will begin in earnest, and an effort to develop some good bowlers, in which the team is at present extremely weak, will be made. It is doubtful also, whether H. G. Gray, the only good wicket-keeper in college, will be able to play this year, on account of his Law School work; his place also will have to be filled...
...discussion which has recently taken place as to the advisability of permitting holders of graduate school degrees, whether or not they are graduates of the college, to vote for overseers, seems from the undergraduate point of view to exaggerate somewhat both sides of the question...