Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TO make the most of the advantages it possesses should be the aim of each department in our University, and to none does this apply more directly than to the Library. That its advantages have not been fully developed is self-evident from the fact that it has not yet...
IT seems, at first sight, that under the new regulations which provide for the exchange of rooms, much dishonest speculation might take place. But inasmuch as the provision is not for a transfer, but for an exchange of rooms, we do not see that the objection to the plan is...
It is certainly true that the value of honors is somewhat lowered; but it is not easy to appreciate the writer's reason for considering this an evil, - that the Harvard honors will degenerate to the level of the numerous prizes of "small-sized colleges." Even if this were true...
The writer of the article referred to is of the opinion that the men who now get Commencement parts will, under the new system, have "less instigation" to work. This objection might have some show of plausibility if the standard of requirements for parts were lowered, and nothing more done...
As to the effect of the new system on the "middle class," the moderately good scholars, it is asserted that these men will be encouraged to take "soft" electives and to work for marks. This, apparently, is the only sound objection that has been offered; but the writer does not...