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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work yet to perform... With an occasional newspaper notice, this college is practically unknown beyond the circle of its alumni and students...Cannot some one suggest some means for directing the public eye upon this institution and give her a boon? If no better way is offered, let a free but judicious use of printer's ink be tried, and see what will be the result. [Lariat, Wabash College...
...operation of the two halls and an intelligent, unbiased public opinion-without which the action of the faculty would have been ineffectual-organized chapters of the Greek Letter fraternities are, so far at least as we know, wholly extinct. Well may we congratulate ourselves that Princeton is free from the demoralizing influence of the division and discord which Greek Letter fraternities are certain to create. [Princetonian...
...letter from Wesleyan says that the present number of students, two hundred and one, is larger than ever before. A new system of punishments has been instituted. Under it several students holding free scholarships have been deprived of the benefit arising from them for the present term; but no suspensions have been reported. Fortnightly, faculty receptions entirely informal have been introduced. The first was last Saturday, and the custom promises to become quite popular. It has become evident that the boating interests there are necessarily to remain at a standstill, unless somebody puts his hand in his pocket...
...progress would be dead. Young men coming to Harvard should be allowed to choose for themselves whether to continue their general education, or to launch at once into some one branch of study. The ranking system should place no premium on either plan; an unbiased choice should be allowed, free from all unworthy motives...
...female medical students in St. Petersburg-a class from which many redoubtable members of the Nihilist party have emanated-have just been compelled to take up their residence in a large boarding establishment, provided by the authorities, under the superintendence of Princess Shakafskoy, instead of being free, as heretofore, to live where they please. They are to pay ten rubles per month for board and lodging, and be at home before 9 o'clock in the evening, under penalty of exclusion from the medical course. Many of the ladies protested at first against this apparent restriction put upon their liberty...