Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning today, men will row in four squads instead of five. Any man who has not been dropped, but whose name is not on this list, will notify the coach of his squad...
...passing of examinations on a definite number of courses or half-courses. Provided that the curriculum is so arranged as to allow considerable freedom of choice among half-courses of the first half-year, the Mid-year Commencement would be of obvious advantage to many whose work would conveniently be completed during the first half-year. Such would be men from other colleges who wished to spend more than one year but less than two at Harvard; Seniors who had completed, say, sixteen courses during their first three years; and men who had missed their degree in a former year...
...enough men to submit to this methodical work with regularity. To those in whom ambition or enthusiasm for debate is strong, and further inducement is unnecessary. It would be of unquestionable advantage, however, to find some means of making the debates attractive enough to insure the attendance of those whose support is but luke-warm. One of the most discouraging features of the system as it now exists, is the difficulty of obtaining an audience...
Numerous examples might be cited of college organizations whose serious purpose has been much aided by the pleasant social features of their meetings. Little effort has been made to strengthen debating in this way, and we think that an innovation in the line of the experiment which Yale is reported to have begun, might be of practical value in Cambridge. The object should be, not so much to arrange dinners or other entertainments on special occasions, as to brighten up the regular meetings...
...last business to come before the meeting was the election of the twenty-four members of the executive committee. The result was the election of the twenty-four men whose names had been proposed by the committee on organization, although twenty-six other men received scattering votes. Major H. L. Higginson's name was withheld from the nominations at his request on account of his being a member of the Corporation...