Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Alumni Association, formerly located at 50 State street, Boston, had moved its office to Cambridge, and established itself in one of the office suites in the Union. The reason for this change, according to Charles Jackson 98, general secretary of the Association, is in order that a closer touch with the University may be maintained by the alumni. At the same time it will give to the graduates who are visiting Cambridge a definite place-where they may go to meet one another as well as to learn of University affairs...
While the Harvard Athletic Association has made no contract with the Pavilion management to play its games on the new rink there is every reason to except that the University will avail itself of this rink at once so convenient and so reliable...
This makes the most comprehensive debating schedule that has yet been arranged. The reason given by the Debating Council for these extra debates is that they wish to give every man who comes out an opportunity to have some practical experience. The unusually large number of men who have reported for debating this fall has made it necessary to extend the usual program in order to fulfill this purpose...
...much broader than heretofore will be given at the end of the four-year course. The individual courses in the Medical School have always been longer than those at the College; the examinations have been fewer, and more men of high standing have been excused from taking them by reason of a high standard during the year. The step is therefore not as radical as was the corresponding step in the College; but it is significant...
...standard, by reason of its obviously competitive basis, varies a little, of course, with different courses; but a man who makes the first group once or the second group two or three times is usually eligible for membership--that is, he will probably be on the lists handed in by the office. He must, of course, be a candidate for the bachelor's degree, either...