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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...votre, WILHELMINE ELLIOTT.Miss Elliott seems to have devoted more time to the higher branches than to French, and would probably have done better to write her "invitation a la chasse" in Latin or Greek. In these languages, and in the other studies of "Ortonville University," she succeeded so well that she obtained a Commencement Part; and we need hardly mention that her subject was, "Woman in the Professions." We leave her on the point of entering a Medical School, hampered by an erst unfaithful, but now repentant lover, whom she has accepted on probation...
...between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel we have done as much as we can to bring about improvement, and now we are ready to wait and see what has been effected by the efforts of others...
...hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem in the next issue; but really, if they are going to put six-and-two-thirds Freshmen into their six oared crew, something ought to be done about...
...injustice done to those in the course by making it extremely hard is manifest. In the case above mentioned, many had taken the elective who had no great knowledge of the subject, but who expected, by diligent work, to succeed tolerably well; the examination was of such difficulty that most of them failed, and the result will be that during the second half-year they will either overwork or neglect their work, thinking that labor is of no avail...
...overwork the instructor), the proper remedy is, either the addition of more electives in that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...