Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chair and cannot vote, to make a tie. At such times, when the combined undergraduate and graduate experience of the absent members would be the most persuasive force in the committee, the undergraduates wait till the committee can get the benefit of that experience, and never, in any important matter, take advantage of the small attendance...
...that the class should pay the rest. Generous as the suggestion was, the committee did not at first feel authorized to assume a new debt. At last the Corporation, the committee, and the class came to an agreement. To show the final position of the committee in this matter, I quote several paragraphs from the record of the meeting on March...
When this matter was brought before the committee a few months ago it was rejected, largely because the action of the Governing Boards of the University during the past few years has rendered uncertain both the continuance of intercollegiate contests and the income derived therefrom...
...upon the mode of insuring a sufficient amount of concentration on the one hand, and a broad enough distribution of courses on the other. Concentration is attained by providing that every student shall take at least six of his courses in some one field. Distribution is a less simple matter. It has been sesured by classifying all the subjects taught in college among four general groups, and requiring every student to take something in each group. In order to attain the second object, that of making a student plan his course of studies in college as a whole and under...
...provide that no student shall gradnate with a merely superficial education, or one that is too narrow in scope, is certainly an advance; but to stimulate a more general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence...