Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experience of all students who are candid with themselves, must lead them to oppose exact numerical marking. Princeton, Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor, and Johns Hopkins, have discarded it, adopting grading by classes. Why is Harvard so backward? Why is it that this college dedicated to truth clings with such tenacity to an outgrown institution? The students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this...
...more fully the true meaning of a free choice of studies, and give more and more thought to their selections, the evils resulting from an inconsistent combination will grow less and less. A study of the records of the college for the last few years will convince any candid reader that this thoughtless union of irrationally connected subjects is fast becoming a very unimportant exception to the general rule...
Upon examning this table, at first thought it seems as if the quality of the regular board must have been lowered in the last two years, and that thereby men have been driven to the order list. The candid opinion of boarders who can remember '82-3, will, however, refute this supposition. The board has been continually improved during the last two years. Mutton stew and beef stew are both nightmares of the past. Substantial dinners and wholesome lunches are assured facts. No one can for a moment claim that poor board has been the cause for this increasing tendency...
...Student, devoted to its own interests" is the candid title of a recently established weekly...
...have heard or known that boys, as a rule, go to these places to have a good time, and that but little work is done. Dissipation, athletic sports, frivolity of all sorts, we fancy, is the business of an Eastern college man. Now this is unjust, and a candid student will not be prejudiced by suoh views." Dissipation, athletic sports, frivolity of all kinds - bless us, what a Satanic trio! And we have been guilty of such things...