Word: norness
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A strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom...
Neither the Class Day Committee nor Seniors in general have been unwilling to see the other side. The faults in the roughness of the "scrimmage" and in the seating of the spectators were quickly recognized and acknowledged. The Class Day Committee was willing to give up the wearing of football...
The degree of Ph. D. has never been given as an honorary degree by the University, nor is the practice of so conferring it, which exists at some American universities, approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, nor by any of the Honorary Governing Boards.
The federation has lately been making a crusade against honorary degrees and the number given has largely decreased in consequence. In view of the fact that Harvard confers the degrees of A. M., and Ph. D., as honorary degrees, it is interesting to note that at the annual convention of...
"I did not, and do not, consider that there has been at Yale any abuse in this direction, nor do I regard the admitted possibility of abuse as other than a very remote one, and I should consider any action taken at Yale similar to that of the Advisory Board...