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...lender in many cases will maintain that the student represented that he had or that he would have money in the bank on the date of payment and so a prima facie case of obtaining money under false pretence is established...
...Thanks to the zeal with which the professors of that university maintain the traditions of our tongue and the preeminence of our authors, I was able to secure an audience, and hold it to the last lecture. . . . I felt as much at home as before a Parisian audience. I had the profound satisfaction of being perfectly understood. I could see that my subject (Le Theatre Contemporain on France) had been studied thoroughly by those whom I addressed...
...should strongly deprecate the lowering of the Harvard requirements for admission, but I believe that a set of uniform entrance requirements could be drawn up which Harvard could accept, and still, by determining the number of subjects to be passed and the quality of the preparation required for admission, maintain the level of its own standard unchanged...
Professor Parker: "At the first thought, I should oppose the adoption of uniform examinations at Harvard and indeed, elsewhere. Each college has its own intellectual ideals, and it is best for every college for its own sake and for the sake of the general cause of education to maintain those ideals separate and distinct. While I shall not assert that the Harvard requirements are better than those of all other colleges. I do believe them to be best for the particular kind of training the University aims to give, and I believe they should be uncompromised. Furthermore, examinations based...
...team representing the Senior Senate defeated the William E. Russell Club of Boston University at I aac Rich Hall, Boston, last night. The question was "Resolved, That the United States should use every means to maintain the integrity of the Chinese Empire." Harvard supported the negative and won chiefly by the unusual tactics of forcing her opponents to accept her interpretation of the question. The Harvard speakers, W. T. Foster, D. C. Hirsch, and W. Catchings excelled in analysis of the question and in rebuttal. The Boston University speakers, R. H. Newcomb, I. M. Huggan...