Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stop transferring of rooms. Allow no transfer and the chances will be fairer for every one. If a man draws a room and finds he cannot occupy it, let him give it up and the bursar will dispose of it. This would do away with all the evils that belong to the present system. Let all the college unite and demand the abolishing of transfers...
...joined the association. An effort was made last fall to induce all players to join the association, and thus to consolidate the privileges possessed by the members. But the scheme was not entirely successful, and there are at present a number of men who play tennis and do not belong to the club. Whether or not they will ultimately all become members is doubtful. The scheme proposed last fall for the assignment of courts was not entirely satisfactory, and some again resent the claims of the club on all the tennis grounds. By reason of the popularity of the game...
...American colleges. The methods are catechetical; teaching is regarded as more important than examinations; prizes are in vogue and exercise great influence. In Scotland, prizes are usually awarded by vote of the students. Practically the system works better than would awards by the professors. Prizes generally go where they belong. The Scotch universities are cheap, because the fees are low and the students live where they please. Their conspicuous and distinctive merit lies in the great stimulative power of their teaching. In England there is, with less of this stimulus, perhaps more of finished scholarship and greater opportunities...
...Agricultural Colleges, so miscalled, says that no young man should go to college until he is old enough to know what he goes for, nor stay a day after he forgets his duty as a citizen, or fails to profit by the advantages afforded him. College rowdies belong at the reform school. - [Herald...
There are very few students who have the courage to appeal to the courts of law when they consider that they have been wronged by the faculty of the institution to which they belong. Several cases of this sort have occurred, however, within the past two months. One of these, mentioned in our columns lately, was decided as follows: "The case of the students of Madison University against authorities of the college in regard to some extra charges, has been decided against the students...