Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That the members of the Conference Committee deem the marking system, now in use at Harvard, unsuited to the elective system, and that they strongly recommend a change...
...which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking system is one that must be remedied by more careful and mature thought, than that of the student members of the conference. Students can not expect to originate a plan for marking that will recommend itself to professors who have lived for years in the atmosphere of marks, and have made special study of methods of teaching and of college discipline. While this side of the question may be true, it is none the less true that students can make themselves familiar with difficult themes...
...seen, the main purpose of the Nations is to bring together men of common ties and sympathies, and, by this union, to bring them, in turn, into contact with all the rest of the university men. This system works admirably among our Swedish brothers, and it would seem to recommend itself to favor among students in American universities. Nothing can be more pleasant than acquaintance with men from one's own state or city, and frequently the acquaintance would never be made unless by some such method as this...
...successful re-start of the reading-room warrants a call for a reading-room founded on some permanent foundation. This periodic life of the reading-room has neither sustained vigor nor lasting growth to recommend it. When the library is remodelled, it is the intention, we understand, to provide a place for a general newspaper reading-room within its walls. This reading-room should be maintained by a special appropriation, and the management taken from the hands of students. In this way it can be supported in manner more in keeping with Harvard's resources than the present meagre funds...
...students in a free land, should feel towards fellow students in a land of despotic oppression, ought to be enough to excite great interest in the next debate of the Union. It is somewhat difficult to procure information bearing on the subject in a convenient form, but we should recommend the reading of any of Turgenieff's novels, more especially "Virgin Soil," as an excellent way to get a fair and at the same time sympathetic idea of the great movement now progressing in Russia. There is also a book entitled "Underground Russia," which is of inestimable value in giving...