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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those not morituros, but about to try examinations. In the words of a recent ethical pamphlet, "don't" stay up all night cramming just before an examination. Go to bed earlier than usual whether you know anything or not. It is better to know less and be able to express it in the blue book than to know more, and be too muddled and tired to remember it. This working until breakfast with a wet towel around your head is very romantic when you tell it to your sympathizing lady friends, but it is of no use in actual practise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1887 | See Source »

...been suggested that the track might be injured if this project were carried out; we cannot see, however, that ice formed by flooding the field would cause any greater damage than the ice that forms there naturally every winter. We express the opinion of a large number of men in college when we say that some organization should take this matter in hand immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/27/1887 | See Source »

...Ball," a poem (for want of a better word) of some half dozen stanzas, expresses in verse what the title says in prose, and it has this good point, that its author does not pretend to any wonderfully poetic idea, and does not try to express it in hexameter or pompous blank verse, and so we have a simple college poem which is sufficient unto itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...been made public. The sketch is written with an enthusiasm which, leading the reader to a plane of idealism, appeals to the sympathetic nature, arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working men." The article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that is of worth to the student, when so much nowadays is apt to contain no data, only reflections. In showing how sincere and earnest the Knights are, an attitude of ardor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

Regulations, ??? 23: "The blank books required for an examination are to be placed in the hands of the instructor not later than the last exercise in the course before the examination. No student is permitted to take any books or papers in the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mid-Year Examinations, 1887. | 1/20/1887 | See Source »

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