Word: caste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every office shall be voted for separately. All nominations shall be made viva voce, and shall be recorded on the black-board by the clerk, but votes cast for persons not so nominated shall be counted. Speeches for or against candidates are unconditionally prohibited...
Next, a gentleman with a mild and inquiring cast of countenance, and an evident thirst for information attracted our attention. He was examining part of the apparatus and we were told was a junior of that kind commonly known in college parlance as a "dig," by which is meant one who never cuts chapel, lectures, or recitations, who has never received a summons, and to whom there is no unholy pleasure in "painting the town red," or "paralyzing the faculty." We were told to regard him carefully for the species is nearly extinct, and will soon...
President McCosh of Princeton takes issue somewhat with this view of the case. He does not hold to the old idea of twenty years ago, which prescribed a cast-iron curriculum for the entire college course, to which all alike must conform without any latitude of choice. Neither does he believe that the average boy of 18 years is mature and discreet enough to be allowed to come and go as he pleases, or to select his own course of subjects at the very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which...
...spoken of from a professional point of view; that even the most gifted amateur can learn much from the worst and stupidest professional is a truth which no one can gainsay. Yet it was a rare comfort last evening to find that every member of the large cast really knew what he was talking about. This is a feeling that one does not often experience in the face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate and had some meaning. In the reading...
...take part. The procession will enter from the rear of the stage, cross the stage obliquely, and retire by the opposite rear exit. The first three acts only of the play will be given. The leading roles of no two acts will be taken by the same gentlemen. The cast of the principals is essentially as follows: Julius Caesar, Mr. Cummings, '83; Marcus Antonius, Mr. Jones; Brutus, first act, Mr. Roundy, '85; third act, Mr. Hansen, '85; Cassius, first and second acts, Mr. Winter, '85; third act, Mr. Goodale, '85; Casca, first act, Mr. J. W. Richardson, '86; second...