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...might infringe upon what it terms its legitimate powers. At this meeting, a resolution was passed, declaring that there should be no change made in the requirements for admission to Harvard College without its consent. Here is a direct clash of authority. The fray now begins. The students can stand one side, and cheer their respective champions. But would not all this strife have been prevented, had there been a conference committee between faculty and overseers...
...Boswell's heart could stand a good deal of trouble without breaking, and within two years after his wife's death, he writes that he is to meet a certain "young lady of about seven-and-twenty. Liely and gay, but of excellent principles, insomuch that she reads prayers every Sunday evening to the servants in her father's family. 'Let me see such a woman' cried I; and accordingly I am to see her. She has refused young and fine gentlemen. 'Bravo' cried I, 'we see then what her taste is'. Here then I am my flattering self...
...second round Paine went in for business, and his superior weight began to tell. He did effective work with his left, but many of his blows were dodged and countered by Clement. The third round made it plain that although Clement was more scientific, he was too light to stand up before his adversary. Paine planted some heavy blows on Clement's face, and was awarded the bout...
...materially in attaining that 'esprit de corps' which is so essential to success, and which it is the duty of the captain of every organization to seek to attain among his men. The men at New London are always worked as hard as the coach thinks that they will stand without making them sick, and it is very necessary that they should be cool and comfortable when off duty and resting, therefore they are provided with these flannel coats and trousers which are thinner, and cooler than the ordinary summer coat and trousers...
...action. The chairman of the first committee of Overseers, Joseph Story, contemplated changes in the college curriculum as early as 1825. The growth toward a more free election of studies has steadily progressed since then. And the near future will see the course of study purely elective. The present stand of the faculty has thus been necessarily forced on them by the gradual development of an elective system inaugurated by the first board of overseers...