Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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ESPECIALLY there seems to be no reason why the requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition...
...English universities, and seen the tablets and flags with the names of crews for many years past, will remember with what interest he saw on the long roll of oarsmen men who afterwards became famous in almost every walk of life. Harvard, in this respect, is sadly lacking, one reason being that our athletic prominence extends no farther back than half a generation; but it is necessary to make a beginning in this respect. This was done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were...
...managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind the theory that this first Freshman race was an experiment, and that, unless it proved a far more successful one pecuniarily than they had any reason to expect, it should be the last Freshman race ever rowed on the Thames under their auspices...
...space. After demonstrating the falsity of the facts which several writers had alleged against the "observation train," and the fallacy of the conclusions based upon them, I asserted concerning the arrangements actually used in running the train, that "no one of the managers has yet seen any reason to doubt that this is the best possible plan, or to hesitate about adhering to it hereafter." My final remarks were as follows...
...heart gives answer, though my reason flies...