Word: done
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Committee on the Institute Catalogue, after a great deal of work, have succeeded in getting everything ready for publication, but probably nothing will be done this year...
...arms might have improved the effect, still we have no fault to find, and compliment them on their costumes. Mrs. Carver appeared well in her rather difficult part, and fainted with good grace. Between the acts the Glee Club and the Pierian favored us with some music, done in their usual good way. And here we would say that the audience is hardly encouraging to the Pierian; though they listen attentively to the singing, they seem to forget that the Pierians are also gentlemen amateurs, and deserve a like politeness, which their good music certainly merits them...
That an old custom is, therefore, a good one, or that what is not done in college buildings and college hours is outside the jurisdiction of the college government, are two statements that hardly need refutation in the community at large, or in the Eastern colleges of the present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing...
AFTER all the preaching against cramming that the students of this College have heard, both through the columns of the College papers and from the desks of the recitation-room, after all the springing of examinations, avowedly done in order to prevent previous hasty preparation, and after Mr. Bain's contemptuous disparagement of what he calls "temporary adhesiveness," one would have supposed that the odious practice must have vanished wholly from the land. Yet probably never, during the existence of the College, has cramming ever been required more absolutely than at two examinations in metaphysics which have lately been given...
YALE wants a new fence, on which they can sit and sing themselves away in everlasting bliss; the "sweetest reminiscence of college life." The Record is horrified at the amount of studying done on Sunday; but does not reflect what an awful thing it is to be on the fence between fear of God and fear of a condition in the Calculus. "There is a rumor abroad that Harvard will give a free Glee Club concert at Saratoga next July, in the regatta ball-room." For enterprising discovery of items, commend us to the Yale Record...