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One word about rules. I sometimes get an absurd letter from some man, who fails to grasp what seems a simple point, and apparently thinks that rules are set up to suit the whim of the Librarian, and therefore it is a fair game to circumvent them; that fines or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 2/9/1922 | See Source »

In order that candidates may be chosen from men who have had, or are completing, a college education a special provision has been made to circumvent the regulation which prevented the acceptance of a candidate unless he is already in the military service. Students now-registered under the draft law...

Author: By Harvard Graduate., | Title: Communication | 6/4/1918 | See Source »

In so far as cribbing is due to the puerile notion that the very presence of the proctor is an invitation to circumvent him, I doubt whether the honor system would result in any greater maturity of moral conceptions. To sign a statement at the end of an examination paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Diploma a Guarantee of Honesty. | 5/19/1911 | See Source »

To circumvent this decision of the Supreme Court, the city of Cambridge has, during the past month, been attempting to carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TAXATION CASE. | 2/12/1900 | See Source »

The mandates which from time to time have been issued by the faculty have done little, except to arouse opposition, and to excite in the more turbulent students a desire to circumvent the issuers of these prohibitory proclamations. As a result, bon-fires have been kindled in dangerous places in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/26/1885 | See Source »

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