Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be good for admission to the Gymnasium after 6 p. m., and there will be no admission without tickets. There will be dancing in the Gymnasium from 8-11. The entrance will be at the main entrance of the building, the exit at the side door facing the Common...
Notwithstanding the excitement of a political campaign, Mr. Chauncey M. Depew found time recently to deliver an address to the graduating class of the Syracuse Medical College. The speech was full of wholesome common sense and bristled with keen sallies of with and humor. The following is an extract of the address...
...seems justifiable. To a student who has mapped out his course of study after much thought and with much care, it is scarcely pleasant to read in the pamphlet that "such and such a course will not be given next year." This omission of courses has become far too common an occurrence, it seems to us. There is little use in urging the students "to make their choice with the utmost care" on the ground that "any plan of study deliberately made and adhered to" will be profitable. If the faculty wish to help us to follow their own advice...
...pity that there are some men in college who cannot learn the common courtesies of life. We have been informed that a short time ago two freshmen took possession of one of the double courts on Holmes Field at two o'clock in the afternoon. Several times during the afternoon they left the court, fastening a racquet to the net as a token of possession, and amused themselves by watching the base-ball game. Several men were waiting for a court, but were evidently too courteous to take the one in question. This sort of thing continued until...
...wished to take out a volume of Sparks' "Life of Washington." The card catalogue states that there are three copies of this work. I was told that two copies are not allowed to be taken from the Library, and that the third is reserved. Why, in the name of common sense, is not one of the two copies which may not be taken out put on the reserved shelf, and the copy now there allowed to circulate? Certainly, it seems ridiculous that two out of three copies should be useless, and that the third should be reserved. If a student...