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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...benefit to the Juniors, but because it shows that there is a prospect of another step from a conservative to a liberal policy. There is no reason for making Juniors take fourteen hours, except that they always have done so. We cannot see why Seniors should take fewer hours than Juniors are obliged to, unless the Faculty confess that the work previous to the Senior year has been too much, and that some opportunity for making up the conditions necessitated by too many requirements is due to the average student. We should be inclined to advise the Sophomores to follow...
...last question in the letter there may be said of '80 what has already been said of '82 '80 furnished fewer men because she did not happen to have the material of the other classes named, although four 'Varsity men to a class is not a bad average. To conclude, the Crimson does not think that as yet there is sufficient reason to abandon the ground which has been already taken...
...Committee to sell tickets to Seniors for the various exercises only in the large packages, for which the price has usually been about ten dollars, and is eleven this year. Many men who cannot afford to buy tickets at all at this price, would be very glad to buy fewer tickets at the same rates. It is too late to make any change this year; but it seems only right that such men should be provided for in future, by selling smaller packages, as well as the larger. Packages containing 3 Yard, 1 Theatre, 1 Tree, 2 Memorial tickets, might...
...their appointments as soon as the novelty wears off. They would do this, of course, in sections; but the gain comes from the fact that those who really want the instruction receive it all the year, having more time as the section diminishes in number, while the instructor has fewer hours. Besides, it is an advantage to compare one's progress with that of others...
...wished to honor could be printed on "rank-lists," not arranged in the order of one-twelfth of a per cent, but alphabetically. Then we might hear less about "leading" the class, and more about men who have clear ideas upon important topics of the times; we might have fewer bookworms and more students; and we might have a larger attendance at University concerts and lectures. Should we not, by such a change, gain in average standing, and would not that "indifference" on the part of those who do not possess extraordinary ability speedily disappear...