Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Judging from the contents of a recent communication, many members of the freshman class seem to think that the upperclassmen are inhospitable inasmuch they do not invite freshmen to their rooms. We would respectfully state that as yet the upper-classmen do not furnish free lunches, even to the members of a class who have "a good eleven, and are going to beat Yale...
...account of certain proceedings in a certain freshman course has just reached our ears; an account which would seem to check our aspiring hopes that we all who are now in college are men. Can we believe that even freshmen would have the childishness, even if we must think common courtesy lacking, to rise in the midst of the recitation and leave the recitation room? When we learn that the recitation room was none other than the instructor's own room, and the cause of the exodus a mere quibble, our respect for such very fresh freshmen reaches the zero...
...college has been transformed. And I hope it is not with idle pride that we now believe it to be the most liberal in its advantages, the most complete, the best American university. And yet the change is not so great as is often thought. In my day even we already had the elective system. The senior and part of the junior year studies, if I remember, were wholly optional. To day the average age at entrance is what ours was at graduation. The 'boy' who elects his freshman year studies now is no more of a 'boy' than...
...enter with so small a chance for possible harm, and there is no form of exercise more beneficial, as well as exhilarating to men enjoying average good health. The slow runs are not severe - for the running is not continuous and there is often an opportunity for walking or even resting. No one is compelled to race for home when the break is made. Therefore, men who have never done much running need not fear to try their modest powers in the weekly hunts. Then, too, it is not the best short distance runner that wins...
...courses to a great abuse which is growing common in the reserved alcove in the library. Much time is necessarily wasted in hunting up the references given in the printed outlines, and one must be an habitue of the alcove for at least two or three weeks before he even knows where to find the books on the shelves. But to increase the loss of time, men take it into their heads to leave the books lying about the tables promiscuously after using them. It is tantalizing in the extreme to have men continually picking up the books...