Word: either...or
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...canvass made, to determine the condition of the college in the matter of religious belief. The plan may be to distribute among the students a short list of questions, to be answered (in confidence), and returned. The only other way is to call on each student in person. Either plan will involve much trouble to those who conduct the canvass, and a degree of annoyance to the individual students; but the interest of the results will be an ample recom pense. The last canvass was in 1881, under charge of the board of editors of the Harvard Echo, the daily...
...stand at present Harvard is expected to ally herself with some few of the smaller and less important colleges alone in accepting the new regulations. We do not know what grounds of hope the Harvard authorities have for hoping that the case will be otherwise. We do not know either what substantial reasons Harvard has for hoping that her persistence in the new policy will ultimately coerce Yale and Princeton into adopting it. A hope that such an event will take place can but be founded on the blindest faith in the superiority of Harvard's position. This faith...
...used to measure the vertical dip of the needle and also used to measure the total force of the earth's magnetism against gravitation. The other, which is the larger and more valuable of the two instruments, is a fine magnetometer, made by Elliot Bros., London. This instrument measures either the horizontal force of the earth's magnetism or the direction in which it points on a horizontal plane. Some difficulty will be found in properly adjusting these instruments, on account of the peculiar magnetic situation of the observatory, midway between East and West Rocks, each of which exerts...
...Resolved, That no professional athletic, oarsman or ball-player shall be employed either for instruction or for practice in preparation for any intercollegiate contest...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-In your issue of February 8 you printed an article on "Our Ranking System," suggesting remedies for what many men have long felt to be either a mistaken policy, or an injustice on the part of the faculty. In your issue of February 11, a correspondent, in arguing against your "third reform," makes the following statement: "This reformer would destroy the advantages of the elective system by placing a premium upon a superficial education, such as is to be obtained in the prescribed course which most American colleges require. Under the reform which is suggested, the specialist...