Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the examinations are removed from our immediate circle of vision, we can look at the question of their abolition from a standpoint that is fairly unprejudiced. On one point in the abolishment that seems bound to come in time, I should like to have information. The outside world, which admittedly knows a little about the subject, has severely frowned on the present system. The "student body" has almost unhesitatingly declared against the long examinations held twice a year. The opinion of the Faculty shows an emphatic tendency towards doing away with mid-years and finals. Our professors are constantly...
LACROSSE. - There is room on the lacrosse squad for half a dozen heavy men weighing from 160 pounds up. All men wishing to play in the spring should come out at once for the preliminary training...
...incapable of writing their own language well. With this mass of unformed material to develop, the wonder is not that much of the undergraduate English remains unsatisfactory, but rather that any of it is ever really satisfactory. It is to be hoped that the preparatory schools will before long come to the aid of the college, and build up in all their students at least the foundations of literary ability...
Pierian Sodality.There will be a trial of candidates for the Pierian Sodality in Roberts Hall on Monday next at 7 o'clock. Men who play wind instruments are particularly desired to come...
...dozen or more, it does not meet the case. In boxing contests blows are struck too rapidly to allow the eye to follow them. When you multiply that by 11, I fail to see how half a dozen or a dozen umpires can correct this game. The correction must come from the manly opinion of the college. The alumni and undergraduates of all colleges may well work together that this disgrace shall cease. It is un-American and uncollegiate. Let each one try to raise the standard of play and say that no quarter shall be given to the unfair...