Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next June at New London will, no doubt, in the minds of the inconsiderate, bring some odium on those who have advised our freshmen to decline Yale's challenge, on the ground that the Thames course is not suitable for a three-cornered race. A little consideration, however, will explain away this apparent contradiction. The race just agreed upon, being the first of its kind, has yet to demonstrate its own feasibility. On the other hand, our freshmen in refusing a three-cornered race, have followed the advice of competent oarsmen well acquainted with the New London course. When once...
...elective system as is now in vogue at Harvard, because, as they say, the professors in the higher courses are compelled to give young college men university courses, for which often times a knowledge of law, ethics, philosophy and political economy is necessary, so that if the professors explain topics referring to such subjects, they lose valuable time and impair their courses; if on the other hand they pass by such matters without giving the needed explanations, but a small number of the students will derive much benefit from the courses. According to the proposed scheme during the first three...
...that in time the accounts will all be brought into the same shape without any sudden change. The committee feel that it is necessary for them to say that at no time has any one of the five organizations refused to submit the accounts for their inspection or to explain fully the particulars with regard to any of the items in these a counts...
...Mines and the School of Law, nor proportionately to the advances made by the undergraduate departments at Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such a vital factor of undergraduate existence elsewhere, is entirely lacking. But this can hardly explain the almost stationary position which the college department of Columbia has now held for the past ten years. With such a city as New York to draw from, the number of students in the college should have increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted...
...Oswego Summer School of Languages, to be held at Oswego, N. Y., from July 9 to August 18, and of which Prof. Adolphe Cohn, assistant professor of French at Harvard, is one of the principals. Mr. Wright will conduct a class in French at the school and will explain the elements of Volapuk if a sufficient number of the pupils desire...