Word: callings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last contribution, "Is there a Difference?" treats of the woman's rights question from a humorous point of view. The dialogue has the chatty and rambling nature of that of an afternoon call, but is not wholly natural at times...
Only three men answered the call for a meeting of candidates for Ninety's tug-of-war team last evening. This is by no means a promising outlook for the juniors. In previous years, '90 has shown more promise of developing a victorious tug-of-war team than in any other branch of athletics, and it would be unfortunate if she now lost her interest even in that direction. There will be another meeting early next week, and it desired that enough men will present themselves as candidates so that two strong teams can be formed to pull against each...
...candidates in 1888, offered more subjects than were necessary, shows that many of the preparatory schools provide means of instruction in more subjects than those strictly required for admission, and that many men are capable of doing more work before coming to college than the admission examinations call for, and that, therefore, the standard of entrance examinations cannot possibly be considered unreasonably high...
...system of advisers, somewhat as applied to special students, be extended to the freshman class. That the reports of the presence and absence of students be collected daily by monitors and daily entered on the books. That no choice of studies made by a student be valid if it call for more than three lectures or recitations on any day of the week, unless the choice has been specially allowed by the dean. That in order to make it more difficult for students to prepare by a brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require...
...place, and no man who would be at all likely to have influence in the formation of an Exeter club should be controlled by such petty feeling as fear of over-boldness. I am certain that there are many men in the university, who, if they would only call a meeting of the Exeter men in college, would undoubtedly be successful in awakening true love for old Harvard which has always been characteristic of Exeter, and which would certainly be the cause of establishing a club here, offering every inducement to Exeter men who are undecided as to which college...