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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Swathmore college has given notice that she will propose an amendment to the constitution of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association to the effect that a student shall be allowed to compete at the meetings four times and no more and that no student shall compete on one college team who has ever competed on another. This is looked upon in the light of an approval of the Yale captain's course in the movement for the purification of athletics...
...date. According to the regulations the spring recess begins the Wednesday before Fast Day, but, if the governor's recommendation is followed, the nineteenth of April will be substituted for that holiday. This recommendation is now being considered by the legislature and should a bill be passed to that effect, certain of the college authorities desire to postpone our recess to that time. This matter, however, has been left to the Overseers, as it does not come in the jurisdiction of the faculty...
...open violation of the new rules concerning examinations. The faculty recently passed a vote providing that no instructor or procter should be present at an examination, but as a guarantee of his good faith, each student should sign at the end of his book a statement to the effect that he had neither received nor given aid during the examination. A number of men, mostly from the lower classes, were noticed to disregard utterly this pledge and the mass meeting was called to condemn their dishonesty. A number of students spoke on the question and the general sentiment seemed...
...satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...
...recent action of the Princeton faculty in abolishing supervision of examinations and, instead, requesting students to sign a declaration at the end of their paper to the effect that they have neither given nor received assistance, has given rise to considerable discussion by the press of various colleges. While this regulation has a certain merit of appealing to the honesty of every man and of tending to raise the standard of honor, it may be doubted whether this mere signing of a pledge will make any material difference in the amount of cheating. A man is no more...