Word: versus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leader "Miss Adams and Joan of Arc" explaining her views on the character; the prologue to Schiller's "Maid of Orleans" translated by Professor W. G. Howard; "Impressions of an Actor" by Tyrone Power; and "Death and the Dicers," by F. Schenck '09, K. R. Macgowan writes of "Honor versus Proctors," and N. Foerster of Lafcadio Hearn...
...Honor versus Proctors," Mr. Kenneth R. Macgowan '11 severely condemns placing proctors in charge of examinations, because that system seems to him humiliating, undemocratic, and unsuccessful. Few will, I think, agree with him. In my opinion, at any rate, cheating in examinations is so rare as to be almost negligible. Nor ought there to be a sense of humiliation because of the presence of a proctor; he is there to protect the honest against the unfair competition of the possibly dishonest. To call that "espionage" is, it seems to me, improper; as well take offence at the mildly inquiring...
...been delivering a series of lectures under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock The lecture, which will be open to Union members only, will be on "Reason and Intellect versus Custom and Habit in the Nutrition of Man," and will be illustrated by the stereopticon...
Popular Science Monthly--"Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty," by F. A. Woods '98M.; "Science versus Art Appreciation," by John Quincy Adams...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold its fourteenth annual athletic meeting Mechanics Hall on February 14. Prominent men from all parts of the country will compete. The programme will include a number of quarter mile relay races, the more important being Princeton versus Cornell and Harvard versus the University of Pennsylvania. It is now almost definitely decided that Harvard will also race Yale in a half mile relay. In the early part of April the regular class championship games will be held and a week later the annual University games will take place. Before the dual contest with Yale...