Word: actions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Secretary requests a prompt reply, as his action may be governed by the answers he receives...
...COMMUNICATION in the Correspondence column expresses the feeling, very general in college, against the proposed reduction of the marks given for the anticipatory examination in Sophomore Rhetoric, and against the precedent established by such action, - a feeling which is perfectly well grounded. That great injustice will be done by such reduction seems to be evident to every one; for the fact, which is doubtful, that the marks were too high, is no excuse for lowering these marks eight months after they were given. One of the chief merits of anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either...
...both will overwork themselves and injure their health. We cannot see how the former privilege could injure a student or the standard of scholarship in the College, and we should like to urge upon the Faculty to reconsider this step, and unless there is a cogent reason for their action, to restore a liberty which does not seem to have been abused...
...action of a member of the Faculty in preventing recently the Sophomore societies from performing parts of their usual initiation, calls for some comment, we think. It has been the custom of these societies for years to shout out in the Delta the names of the first ten elected from the Freshman class, and then, forming in procession, to march through the Yard singing. That the singing is not as rich in harmony as it is in volume is a lamentable fact we are forced to admit; but we can hardly believe that the sensitive nerves of the College were...
...action of the Association in offering to send men to the Intercollegiate games at Mott Haven has had the effect of inducing men to train who would not otherwise have done so; yet it is a cause of great regret that announcement of its intentions was not made earlier by the Association. This could not well be, however, for the difficulty of getting a track near the college appeared insurmountable. It was useless to talk of Jarvis Field for this season; in fact, we may consider ourselves fortunate if we are allowed to use it at all next autumn. Holmes...