Word: extras
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructors as well as students. The Corporation are to be most heartily thanked for this extension of our times of rest. Report says, however, that the reason of this change is that the college year is thirty-nine weeks long this year, instead of thirty-eight; and, as this extra week is out of the common course, it is to be given us in vacation. It is a well-known fact that the large majority of instructors and students think that the ordinary recesses are insufficient; and we would strongly urge the Corporation to make this year's arrangement...
...amount of extra work required by instructors in some of the elective courses has become something to which the attention of the Faculty should be at once directed. In the elective pamphlet we are informed that the recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention...
...football, rely upon gymnastics for their exercise; and when the pleasant weather is over, many others will seek the gymnasium, if its "attractions" are held out to them. It would be greatly for the convenience of all such men, if the old gymnasium might be opened. By this means extra time could be given to fitting up the new building, and suitable accommodations for the Crew and means of heating the water might be introduced...
...Extra dishes ordered...
Members are entitled to members' tickets only; all extra tickets 25 cents apiece, to be obtained from the Executive Committee, or at 42 Grays, on any day after May 10, except Saturdays and Sundays, from 2 to 3 P. M. No tickets can be obtained on the days of the meetings after 3 o'clock, and no tickets will be sold at the gate...