Word: seriously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...logic or psychology or history of philosophy is really to reach a large number of beginners, it would be absurd for the instructor to feel influenced by such negative votes, unless he knew the quality of the voter. Above all it would be dangerous for our elective system, if serious students were guided by such a commentary in the choice of their courses. There may be poor courses in the University, but the chances are great that this kind of canvassing with this kind of answering and tabulating entirely distorts the picture and works as a warning, just when encouragement...
...thoroughly disapprove a recent article in the Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
...Freshman Dormitory Scheme" is a timely and serious discussion which will enlighten the Western delegates if they reach it. "The Great Swamp" is a half breed and Indian story, in general plan like Mr. Lawrence Mott's work, with more accuracy but less picturesquencess and dash. In some passages the sentences are monotonously short. "Gentlemen and Seamen" treats of the old merchant sea-captains in New England and of Salem, the old seaport for trade with the East. The feeling in the article is good; but the imperfect workmanship and the tendency to moralize give the effect of a school...
...time of the club's formation as to whether there was room in the University for another dramatic organization, considering the number of plays annually presented by Harvard men. But apparently there was no reason for such doubt. The Dramatic club, as the sole organization aiming to produce serious dramatic works by graduates and undergraduates of the University and to arouse interest in acting these plays, has been so far remarkably successful. As everyone knows, "The Promised Land" was considered much more highly than most college productions, not only in the technique of the play itself but in the strength...
...Bible-study conference to be held in Appleton Chapel tonight under the auspices of the Christian Association is noteworthy because of the excellence of the speakers, and because of its significance in marking the termination for this year of an earnest and serious effort to spread the study of the Bible throughout the University. The opportunity of hearing President Eliot needs no further indorsement than the mere announcement. Mr. Carter is not so well known to the present College generation as to that of six or seven years ago. At that time he left the University for India, the representative...