Word: cases
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...that body, because he is not a citizen of Massachusetts. The reasons for the decision seem to be largely based upon the fact that a similar committee, six years ago, decided that ex-President Hill of Portland was not eligible to the Board. In the first place, the cases are not parallel. Dr. Hill forfeited his seat by removing from the State. It might well be a question, in such a case, whether an Overseer could hold his seat without being re-elected as a citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason...
...theory of shortening the examination time is that cramming is thereby prevented and more time given to recitations during the year; and this view of the case does not, at first sight, seem unreasonable. But it is extremely doubtful if shortening the period does prevent cramming. On the contrary, it forces an enormous amount of work into a few days, and leaves the student in a state of mental collapse that effectually prevents any work for some time. Cramming, in the case of a majority of students, is not a hurried effort to get a superficial knowledge of the half...
...Monday the Corporation voted "not to accept the subscriptions on the part of the students to pay for board walks in the Yard." The grounds of the refusal are, first, that it is not proper for the Corporation to accept subscriptions from students; secondly, that in the case when they did so, the men that subscribed for heating Sanders Theatre grumble because they were called upon to do it, and that this grumbling has come to the cars of members of the Corporation. With regard to this, we cannot see that there is any appreciable difference between receiving money from...
...modern Harvard the case is far different. Although in the catalogue of our instructors may be found the names of many men whose reputation has passed beyond the boundaries of Cambridge, and whose acquaintance in a social way might be of great benefit to students, the number of those who show any tendency to know more of their pupils than can be learnt in two or three hours a week is limited to four or five. The barrier between these two great classes is one of no imaginary kind; it is rigid, and almost impassable...
...Harvard, Dr. Peabody said that in a prehistoric term he had been a tutor at Harvard, and that then, with about 200 students under them, the Faculty spent the greater part of their time in administering penal discipline. Now, with the number of students largely increased, such a case of discipline happens not once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being. It is true, he remarked, that after the Freshman year there are no proscribed studies; but the men do better work than they did under...