Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with other colleges on marking systems, will be made at this meeting and will embrace information from about twenty colleges. The work of this committee will be accomplished when a concise report containing an abstract of this information shall have been submitted: It then remains for the conference to discuss various plans. Discussion is necessary; no result can be reached without it. We all earnestly hope, however, that discussion on this question will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction or construction. Evils do exist in our marking system, and they can be eradicated, in some degree, by changing the system...
...sermon which Phillips Brooks preached in Appleton Chapel last Sunday is not a sermon that can be easily forgotten; the truth that it contained cannot be overlooked. Setting aside the strictly moral and religious sides of the question, which it is hardly our office to discuss, we believe that the mental and intellectual deserve note. It cannot be denied that there exists at Harvard, and probably at all colleges, a spirit of indifference for general excellence. Men come to college to study, and perhaps do study most faithfully, but if their one aim is to make themselves learned, then their...
While the Lampoon is indulging in its glowing delineations of the all powerful conference committee, and while we feel a just pride in the work of the committee, the conference committee of one of our nearest neighbors is doing its best to discuss "some points of French grammar" and to pass motions for adjournment. The conference committee of Williams is exhibiting a marvelous propensity for wasting time, and each meeting of the committee is a repition of the futile efforts of the last to accomplish something. It is simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed...
...every side of human nature and human intellect. At least one side is left unsatisfied, and not unlikely is better, so left. The responsibility of training themselves in speech and argument, of making themselves informed on the current topics of the day, and of making themselves able intelligently to discuss those topics, is for the most part left with the students; and as a rule they have cheerfully as well as very successfully, taken up this responsibility. The fact that the action has been their own, and not prompted by mandates or regulations of the college authorities, has added...
...wish to urge the students to make an especial point of being present at the meeting called for this evening to discuss the question of building a grand stand on Holmes Field. The matter is of importance, and is one that should be attended to at once. It is true that the whole affair received a severe check last year, when plans were submitted which called for an exorbitant outlay. Yet the designs for the building which are to be presented to-night call for an outlay at the same time reasonable, and within the means of the students...