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...Certain Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Special subject: R. W. Emerson (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
...present Harvard seems to have won advantage by successfully introducing the co-operative system; but she has one disadvantage that to a certain degree counterbalances this, and that is the fact that Harvard has always been regarded as one of the most expensive colleges in the country. However, if by strict attention to the principles of economy students at Harvard reduce the expense of a college education within the limits of moderation, this disadvantage in reputation will soon be overcome and the institution derive the legitimate benefits of the system they have introduced. With her association of over seven hundred...
...those whose average has been over ninety per cent., dissertations to those over eighty, and disquisitions to those over seventy-five. This list will be revised just before commencement, at which time those who have received highest honors will be given orations, honors will receive dissertations, and under certain conditions honorable mention disquisitions. As many of these write parts as choose, and they are then delivered before a committee, who select five or six to speak on commencement...
...than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain conditions are fulfilled. This question is not at issue. The college authorities can surely announce that they will not vote to confer degrees unless they see fit to do so. But to say - if the English means anything - that they will meet, formally vote the degrees, either with or without...
...suppose that Williams generally would see the advantage, and be led to approve any action looking towards a reorganization. "We have a right," cries the Athenoeum, "to frown down upon that disposition to stand aloof from the other colleges, which is becoming more marked upon the part of certain of our larger universities. American student life is to be found purer and more typical in its established traditions in the smaller New England colleges today than in the larger ones; and in seeking to stand apart and form, as it were, an aristocracy of universities, the latter are separating themselves...