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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...departments of the university. Heretofore the system has been something in the nature of an experiment, and no hard and fast rules have been laid down for its control. But so successfully has the system worked during its three years' trial that both faculty and students are heartily in favor of it. Accordingly a mass meeting of the college has been held, at which a constitution regulating the new honor system was adopted. This was considered necessary for the guidance of future generations of students, lest when the present senior class shall have graduated laxity in the mode of procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honor System at Princeton. | 5/15/1895 | See Source »

...person or his paper, or any attempt to give assistance. This rule holds within or without the examination room during the entire time in which the examination is in progress. The sentiment of the student body is back of the movement, and the Faculty is heartily in its favor. A prominent member of that body recently said that he regarded this honor system as the most important movement which had taken place in Princeton during his professorship - a period of some fifteen years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honor System at Princeton. | 5/15/1895 | See Source »

HANOVER, N. H., May 13. - Dartmouth defeated Brown in the decisive game of the series today, by the score of 7 to 5. In the two games played in Providence the scores were 3 to 2 in favor of Dartmouth and 5 to 3 for Brown. The contest today was very sharp and clean and full of interest from beginning to end, Brown being retired in the ninth with two men on bases. Folsom's brilliant stop of a hot grounder and Captain Abbott's batting were noteworthy features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth, 7; Brown, 5. | 5/14/1895 | See Source »

...oratorical contest between the Harvard and Yale prohibition clubs took place Saturday evening in Unity Hall, Hartford, Conn. Mr. Allen B. Lincoln, Yale '81, presided, and appropriate music was rendered by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Beveridge of Nebraska. The judges gave their decision in favor of the Yale club. While the judges were conferring Mr. E. C. Snyder, secretary and organizer of the National Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, explained to the audience something of the workings and significance of the intercollegiate prohibition movement, which has now spread to include thirteen or fourteen different state associations and over a hundred colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Prohibition Club Contest. | 5/13/1895 | See Source »

...giving their decision the judges complimented all the speakers highly, but decided in favor of the Yale speakers. Great cheering followed and the successful speakers were carried on the shoulders of the students to the New Haven House, where a banquet was given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD LOSES THE DEBATE. | 5/11/1895 | See Source »

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