Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition of verse-making, except as an extra in the higher forms. Greek, too, as a compulsory subject is doomed, and all the head masters in England cannot save it. This, we know, is a debatable question, and we should like to argue it out, but here we must be content to dogmatic...
...CRIMSON.-Your editorial of the 17th ult. on the inefficiency of the German department, has not, it seems, produced the desired effect. Not only has no head to the department been appointed, but the methods of one instructor in particular have established no attempts at improvement. The instructor in question, day after day, ignores completely the presence of half the men in his sections; in fact, to make the matter worse, often calling upon the more fortunate students twice or more times in the course of a recitation. This is common talk among the men of the freshman class...
...next meeting of the Harvard Union will be held on Tuesday, March 24th. The debate will be on the following question; Resolved, that members of the President's cabinet should be allowed on the floor of Congress with full powers to speak and vote. Regular disputants have been appointed as follows:- C. A. Strong, '85, and H. Page, '88, affirmative; J. M. Goodale, '85, and L. B. Stedman, '87, negative...
...hours per week offered by Harvard) the 12 hours most conducive to their mental growth? I have not met such young men among the undergraduates of any college, nor do I expect to meet them. If experienced men who devote a lifetime to the study of the special question of election in studies in colleges, differ as widely as do President Eliot and President McCosh, how can a poor, green youth of eighteen, without any knowledge whatsover of the nature and advantage of studies between which he is told to choose, make anything like a selection...
...Graduate Advisory Committee shall choose two members of the nine to serve, with the captain, as the undergraduate committee. The majority of their votes shall decide the question...