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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said a brilliant thing, by proclaiming that another class was about to leave these "classic shades"; that their virtues were manifold and their faults but specks? Certainly this is true, for it has all been said, over and over again, of preceding classes. We will therefore not moralize upon either the class or the day, but we will earnestly hope and devotedly pray that the day itself will not be very warm; that the marshals will be as elegant in their appearance as the combined efforts of art and nature can make them; that the oration will prove all that...
...review the record of athletic sports for the past year would be but to say, what we have already said, that either sloth or devotion to higher pursuits has taken away large numbers of the devotees of the race-course. The club races and the athletic sports have been universally acknowledged "fizzles." But while the contests among ourselves have not reflected as much credit upon us as usual, we seem more likely this year to carry away laurels from the contests before us with other colleges, than last year. Our Nine has already covered itself with glory...
...last attempt of the Faculty to barricade the royal road to learning cannot be called either a successful or a well-advised movement. We have never loudly remonstrated against the changes which, by raising the standard, added to our labors. We have endeavored, during the year that is closing, to take as calm a view as possible of all the differences that have arisen between undergraduates and the powers above them. We have no desire now to break out into violent language, - to rail against "tyrants and oppressors," in speaking of the new rule by which every one who enjoys...
...course received below fifty per cent on an examination. Low marks resulting from circumstances outside the real knowledge of the subject are of course not as likely to come in the Senior year as in any other; still, they may then come, and one mark of below fifty on either examination of the year, no matter what the marks are, in recitations or on the other examination, the result to a Senior is fatal. To make the degree depend upon one trial, I always supposed to be contrary to the policy of the College, and any action of our Faculty...
...last law in the category empowered the President and Fellows to punish all misdemeanors of students "either by fine or whipping openly in the Hall as the nature of the offence requires not exceeding 10 shillings or 8 stripes for one offence...