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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have heard Special Students complain of the delay which they experience in getting their marks. While we admit that there are some of this class of students to whom their standing cannot be of the slightest interest, there are others who are deeply interested in their work, and who show that interest by constant application. It seems to us that instructors should find no difficulty in discovering who the latter are, and should take especial care to give them their marks at the time when they give them to regular students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...ADMIT I oughtn't to have done it; I knew it would make him angry. But then he shouldn't have taken me to call on her, even though I did ask him. The case was as follows: Lardy felt obliged to me; I had given him so many dinners at Parker's, and had taken him so often to the theatre. So he took me to call on Carolinda Wiggleson. I was just recovering from my passion for Adelinda Higginsworth, and was consequently in a very sensitive and susceptible condition. On entering the room I succeeded by a clever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...janitor will spend his whole time from 7.15 A.M. until 6.30 P.M., except an hour for dinner, in or about the building. - He will keep the building free from beggars, pedlers, traders, and all other objectionable persons, and will admit no one to a tenant's room without an order from the tenant. He will take from the tenants orders for repairs and give them promptly to the Superintendent, and notify the Superintendent of any thing about the building which needs his attention. He will keep the steps free from snow and ice. He will light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH." | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...moved to omit the standing high and standing broad jumps from the programme, but after a heated discussion, the former motion was lost, the latter, however, eventually being passed. The aggregate weight of the tug-of-war teams was limited to 600 pounds. Lafayette College, of Easton, Pennsylvania, was admitted; and the Executive Committee were given power to admit McGill College, Montreal, should she apply. The following officers were then elected by acclamation: President, Walter I. Badger, Yale, '82; Vice-President, Evert J. Wendell, Harvard, '82; Secretary, Alexander Harvey, Columbia, '82; Treasurer, H. F. I. Porter, Lehigh, '80. Executive Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...manner of conducting a society, but we feel called upon to take some notice of the action of the Phi. B. K. at the Commencement dinner. This society has recently expressed fears of a too rapid increase in numbers, and to remedy this matter it has decided to admit but twenty-five men from the graduating class. If the Phi. B. K. were nothing more than an ordinary college society, we should say not a word, but admittance to that body has been regarded as a touchstone for ability in scholarship. We do not intend to enter upon an invidious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

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