Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students have lately expressed a wish that the marks awarded at the semiannual examinations could be made public a little earlier than they are. The utter ignorance of their position, in which many men find themselves, is very dispiriting. That our instructors are hard worked nobody pretends to doubt; and that as a rule they return the examination-books at the earliest moment compatible with their convenience is generally admitted. Yet, perhaps unreasonably, many of the students think that their marks might be announced within a fixed period, - three or four weeks from the examination, for example, - and our instructors...
...misunderstanding among the students in regard to the number of marks necessary for a degree. That an average of 50 per cent must be obtained for the whole course, and that the average for Senior year must be 50 per cent, all know. But many students have been in doubt whether it was necessary to obtain this mark on each study, or whether a general average was all that was required. We have the authority of the Registrar to state that the latter is the case. A Senior who obtains less than 40 per cent on any elective...
...last Advocate urged that the alcoves in the Library be thrown open to undergraduates, and without doubt many students could be allowed to look over books freely, and no harm be done. However, we are assured that such freedom is impracticable, and that when the experiment has been tried it has failed, for in spite of "college honor" rare books have not only been injured, but frequent thefts have occurred...
There is little doubt but that if the "sideshows" were abolished, greater interest would be centred on the University race. All these auxiliaries, except the Freshman and single-scull races, are foreign to the real object, of little interest in themselves, and their connection with the University race might be very fitly broken...
...notified the societies in the College buildings that their rooms must be vacated at the end of the present term. This action is caused principally, we believe, by a desire to increase the number of rooms which can be let to students by the College. There can be no doubt that the demand for rooms in the buildings far exceeds the supply, but the plan for satisfying this demand seems to us as poor a one as could well be devised. It is neither just toward the societies nor likely to prove beneficial to the University. Upon the Hasty Pudding...