Word: easier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other side, opposed to the change, says: first, that as a matter of fact, Harvard's growth has been far greater in proportion than the country's; second, that if a lower standard and easier requirements are necessary to make more men attend college, why have the colleges who grant degrees easiest flourished least? third, that our country is capable of indefinite development. Why cut down the standard already successfully reached? fourth, that a fourth year is frequently necessary to bring out a man's best work; fifth, that the change would break up the traditions and systems under which...
Coffin '93, who is ill with peritonitis at the Brunswick, was not so well again on Saturday morning, and it was decided to perform an operation. Since the operation his temperature has gone down and he has rested easier; he passed a fairly comfortable day yesterday...
...would be so much easier for men to live good lives if they only opened their lives to these influences as completely as Nathaniel did. A man seems, without these influences, to be blind to the fact that by living an honest, temperate, straight-forward life he is not alone developing himself and becoming a better servant of Christ, but he is exerting an influence for good on all around him, the effects of which will be apparent to him all through his life. Dr. Brooks said that lives of this kind are, if possible, even more beautiful in their...
...candidates for the 'varsity nine will probably be materially reduced in number at the beginning of next week in order to make rapid progress easier. The freshman candidates still number about thirty-five...
...over four years. As both sets would be taught in the same classes, there could be no accommodation of the severity of the courses to either. The desire to do three and a half years work in three years would tend to encourage the choice of studies which demand easier work or have less dangerous examinations. This evil already puts the courses which demand severe and continuous work at a serious disadvantage, and it is unavoidably aggravated by the close competition for scholarships...