Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London Quarterly Review says in a recent number: "All the professors of universities in America save one, Pennsylvania, teach free trade; but the people are protectionists in spite of their doctrinaires." The New York Mail and Express says, in comment, that although Pennsylvania is not the only protectionist college (for the University of Minnesota also teaches protection) yet it must be admitted that the economic teaching in most of our colleges is a reflection of English thought and methods. This is shown by the fact that the text books used are those of Adam Smith and Malthus, Mill and Jevons...
...conclusion, we advise no one to pursue a systematic course of "cramming," A man who studies the larger part of a night before an examination enters the examination room with impaired mental faculties, unable to express forcibly or well the substance ground up the previous nigh. A clear mind with a few facts is of more avail than a muddled head with an interminable jumble of confused statistics...
Requlations, S 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 into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
Lamont, '86, and Fuller, '88, are on the editorial board of the Albany Morning Express, the former holding the position of city editor...
...William Barnes, jr., '88, has become proprietor and editor of the Albany Morning Express. Mr. Barnes was formerly a member of the CRIMSON board, and since graduation has been employed on the staff of the Albany Journal...