Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Early in '69, however, it was rumored that a match had been arranged, and a mass meeting of the students was called to discuss the practicability of the proposed event. At this meeting it was urged that Harvard could in no way compete with Oxford as she was greatly surpassed in the number of students, as in England the art of rowing was learned in the colleges preparatory to the higher universities while the members of the Harvard crew must necessarily be men who had learned to row during their college course...
...many work men ambitious to study, and a few men could do much for these by giving the results, for a few evenings a week, of their training. There is much that students could do. The members of the Eight-hour League, for instance, in Boston want to discuss their subject. Why do not a few men go into them? Two groups of Socialists want to do the same. Henry George's Society has challenged business men, professors and clergymen alike without response. The work men have an intense and growing interest in taxation, and want knowledge. Here are great...
...which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss matters of great importance for the welfare of the University, it will be certain to obtain a larger influence in directing college sentiment than it has had in the past...
...December number of the Atlantic Monthly is a worthy ending for the year 1888. It is gratifying to notice as time goes on the growing tendency of the Atlantic to discuss the questions of the day. "The Future of the Country College," by President Hyde of Bowdoin is a masterly treatment of a subject which interests not only college men, but all people interested in higher education. Miss Murfree ends in this number her remarkable story "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove." Those who have followed it through the year can testify to its excellence. Mr. Hardy contributes the eleventh...
ENGLISH B.A talk on the choice of titles for themes, etc., will be given in Sever 11, on Tuesday, October 23, at 2 o'clock. At the close of this talk theme I will be returned to the writers. The instructors will hold themselves ready to discuss criticisms with students, in Sever 11, from 3 until 4 o'clock...