Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Every time an orphan or insane asylum is burned down and a number of inmates become victims to the fiery element, the students in the tall dormitories tremble and sigh for better protection. As was said earlier in the year the staples nestling in the woodwork of the bedrooms fail to give complete confidence that a fire would not bring disastrous consequences. There fore, why should not the authorities jump at the chance to prevent fires entirely, since a ready means for so doing has lately been invented? We refer to the new hand grenades, the accounts of successful trials...
...might think that with nearly two hundred courses of study in the academical department of the college, it would be impossible for any one, who was pursuing a liberal education, to fail to find such electives as be would desire to take. Yet we feel that there is something lacking, and that, too, in what we consider one of our strongest departments, that of Natural Science. In the elective pamphlet there is not to be found mention of a single course in one of the grandest of our sciences, Astronomy. Turning to the catalogue under the head of "The Astronomical...
...time it is a course of classics, at an other of modern languages. This year a course in Chaucer has been added. Notwithstanding the high merit of these evening readings the students have paid them but small attention. While the evening lectures are well patronized the readings fail to interest the great majority of students. This is a subject which deserves far more attention than is generally given it. It is by listening to these readings that a man can come to feel that there are other interesting studies than those which he pursues. We are too apt to become...
...surprised to learn that comparatively few men have joined the athletic association this year. For the last few years the average has been two hundred and fifty; for this year, however, the number has not exceeded one hundred and thirty-a remarkable falling off. We fail to see any reason for this decrease in membership. The H. A. A. has certainly done its duty to the college, and naturally expects the college to do its duty...
...wish to do injustice to anyone, and we appreciate the work which the committee attempted to do, but we fail to see why some such plan was not followed...