Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...principle question before the meeting was, How to treat cribbing. Mr. Merriam's resolution that students. suspected of cribbing, be brought before a jury, composed in part of students, for trial, was carried. Vote: Affirm., 8; neg., 1. A proposal that the jury consist of 6 members each of faculty and students, and another for 3 members each were voted down. The resolutions, presented by Prof. Shaler, "That the Conference Committee recommends that students, hereafter suspected of cheating in college work, be tried by the Conference Committee, voting as usual, and, if adjudged guilty, be so reported to the faculty...
...very spirited and interesting. The president, Mr. Merriam, '86, occupied the chair. The subject for debate was, Resolved: - That President Cleveland's administration has been and promises to be in the direction of reform. The vote on the merits of the question resulted in 48 votes for the affirmative and 38 for the negative. J. M. Goodale, L. S., opened the debate for the affirmative, G. P. Furber, '87, for the negative, followed by E. A. Hibbard, L. S., affirm., and P. L. Sternbergh, '87, neg. The vote on the skill in debate of the principal disputants stood, affirmative...
...face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees...
...with a half learned lesson, is it surprising that a man under such circumstances should lose the religious significance of the duty? As a revielle, a police regulation to get men out of bed, it does us good service: as a purely religious exercise, we fancy very few would affirm that, as the fact stands now, it is honorable either to the students, or to their religion. It is strange that within a week after the Harvard faculty had passed resolutions in favor of making morning chapel voluntary, an act in our own college should have confirmed the truth...
...failed to turn out a number of "great men" proportionate to the number of dollars represented by the endowment. The views of our e. c. on the ratio of genius to college wealth are novel, to say the least. The Dartmouth says: "It is a moderate statement to affirm that in proportion to its wealth and outward facilities, Dartmouth has exerted a far mightier influence for good than Harvard. To equalize the record, Harvard ought to have produced some nine or ten Websters or Choates. But she has not done...