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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edward Atkinson will be the lecturer. Mr. Atkinson is well known as a business man who has turned his attention to the subject of political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers...
...handing in the marks of their section has been raised again and again, but the only solution thus far has been that they don't. And yet, unless prevented by some strong reason, it seems a gratuitous piece of unkindness for any instructor to go leisurely to work to correct the books of his sections, knowing that the results are awaited with impatience by the men. Of course, when there is any fair reason for a delay, everyone is willing to wait patiently, but when there is not, it most obviously is a piece of injustice which should be remedied...
...general oxordium to the recently published Inter-Collegiate Athletic Regulations omitted from the telegraphic report is as follows: "The object of physical training is to confirm health, correct morbid tendencies, strengthen weak parts, give a symmetrical muscular development, and secure as far as possible a condition of perfect physical vigor. In order to accomplish these desirable ends, young men are encouraged to take exercise, and to enter into the general practice of athletic sports and games. If, however, the object of physical training be lost sight of, and the desire to win the championship, or to attain the highest degree...
...have had occasion before to call attention to the "rough" element which appears in the college yard night and day, and it is certainly time that measures were taken to correct this nuisance. The guilty parties are mostly confined to the genus "mucker" who have a most wonderful and varied command of the vocal organs. Indeed some of the sounds that issue forth from the lips of these specimens are astounding and remind one of a large and well assorted circus menagerie or of a steam calliope. It is exceedingly unpleasant when a man is grinding for examinations or puzzling...
...each position in this list, the per cent. which won the same relative position in the proficiency list. This plan, it is evident, gives as much importance to the quantity, as to the quality of work. It seems strange at first, but it is reasonable, and it would correct the evil...