Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty have indefinitely suspended two Dartmouth editors of the senior class, Ladd, managing editor, and Lovell. Objections were made to the language and sentiments of a communication by Lovell in the last issue criticising the faculty's action in refusing to extend the time for handing in prize essays, and also to editorials by Ladd, one calling attention to the communication and indorsing it, and another characterizing the marking system, compulsory attendance at religious exercises and the closing of the reading-room on Sunday as absurd features not by any means peculiar to Dartmouth, and advocating the formation...
...later dispatch from Dartmouth says that the men are not suspended, the trustees as yet having taken no action. This later communication says that instead of expulsion the with-holding of degrees was recommended. As the matter now stands, there is some uncertainty, and we shall have to wait for further confirmation before finally believing either report...
...office should be kept open until ten o'clock in the evening. The nine would no doubt contribute a little towards affecting this change, and Cambridge business men might add the rest if the company feel unable to move in the direction of improvement. What is needed is action...
...action of the academic council in offering such liberal terms for the award of these fellowships is but a step in the march of progress which the well-wishers of Harvard desire to see, and will be accompanied with admirable results in increasing the claims of Harvard as the leading university of the country...
...given at the time, that perhaps the gentleman was excited, or perhaps even "rattled," but we see no reason why in a game between the freshman nines of the same two colleges, this same university played should endeavor to coach the freshman nine. There is no rule prohibiting such action, but we think it shows decidedly bad taste...