Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...remembered that this year, which is the poorest so far in point of numbers, over one hundred men competed in the bumping races. A scrub sport of any sort that employs one hundred men in competitive exercise for a month can hardly be called unsuccessful. One thing is certain: there have never been so many men rowing under any other system in the University as there has been under the dormitory system this year. Until a very much better plan can be evolved, enthusiastic and careful supervision of the dormitory system is likely, to give a large number...
...whole the plan seems logical. There are certain qualifications desirable in the nominations for Secretary which are as important as in the case of any of the officers or committeemen. This being the case, the more men available for that nomination the better for the class as the chances are in so much better that the Secretary will be well qualified and competent to undertake the responsibilities of permanent secretary. It is usually the case that no matter how carefully the nominations are made there are one or more men, defeated candidates for one position, who would have been more...
...Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American schools it is stopped at fourteen. There...
...bring them into closer relations with the officers of the University and their families, particularly with those professors whom they do not meet in the classroom. As in former years, the management of the teas is in the hands of a permanent executive committee made up of certain members of the Faculty and their wives, and ten or twelve members of this committee will be present on each Friday afternoon. In addition, a number of men from the undergraduate classes and the Graduate Schools have been asked to serve as ushers, and a number of them will be present each...
Professor I. L. Winter '86 described the purpose of the club and emphasized the importance of its being made a permanent organization. He proposed that topics of local interest be discussed; that a certain part of the work of the meetings be prepared previously; that the meetings be made public occasionally; and that a critic be present and give advice to the individual speakers. Professor G. P. Baker '87 suggested that public meetings should be held as often as possible...