Word: classe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns of our daily newspapers, - and you are one of that class, and a very popular man, if that comforts you. Good night...
...subscription list for the University Crew has been circulated lately among all the classes, and the subscriptions of the three upper classes have been liberal, while the Freshmen have given but little and that with very bad grace. A year ago the new system of assessing each class a certain percentage of the amount necessary for the crew was instituted, and was acknowledged by every one to be a very just and equitable way of raising the money required. Each class now in passing through College supports one crew. The Freshmen are assessed thirty-five per cent of the whole...
...mean time we shall have to content ourselves with such opportunities for practice in speaking as the College may accord us. There is, however, one chance for practice which is very frequently neglected, to the detriment of our own interests, - the class and society meetings...
...sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs, and which, though natural in the lower classes, should speedily be overcome by men who are beginning to have a share in decisions upon questions of national interest, involving alike their honor, their safety, and their property. The Freshman, naturally shy about speaking before his unknown classmates, thinks that the easiest way will...
...Freshman class at Hamilton has "bolted" - i. e. refused to attend college exercise - on account of the suspension of two of its members. This proceeding appears to have been quite common at Hamilton, and the Faculty are disinclined to yield. At the same time, they seem unwilling to expel the whole class, and matters are in a thoroughly unsettled condition...