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These men seldom cut College engagements; perhaps their record will show ten or twelve absences a year, surely all that is necessary. It would evidently be unfair to accuse this larger number of students with 32 cuts annually. But, on the other hand, there is a minority of men, many of them active in undergraduate affairs, whose continued cutting brings the average up to one per week for the whole College; and it is in this group that the present situation is really serious. Unlike their more intellectual class-mates, they are well-known, often as "good fellows," and hence...
...convince one-fourth of the jury that he is innocent; judicial decisions cannot be reversed for trivial errors; railroads are kept in control by the club of the initiative and referendum; state officers are made to do their duties by the recall, stationed as a guard over them; a larger percentage of intelligent voters has come forward to run the government with wisdom; experts are planning and arguing the new steps in state affairs; and the responsibility for the government is where it ought to be with the people...
...spite of the fact that the enrollment in the drafting courses conducted by the Engineering Department is much larger than in the similar architectural courses, an entirely different policy is employed in regard to the respective drafting rooms of the two departments. Although those in Robinson remain open during the evening, the drafting rooms in Pierce Hall close at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, except on Saturday, when the building is closed one hour earlier...
...been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses in so high a degree. Many students there are in the University...
...Francis Cabot Lowell was elected an Overseer in 1886; while still holding this office he became a member of this Board in 1895. During this long period he rendered the College many valuable services. He was interested in all the larger activities of the University and no less in the prudent management of its affairs...