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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miscellaneous.- The Williston Seminary's standard has been raised to meet the Harvard requirements, a change by which it is thought we will gain at the expense of Yale...
...announcement of an advanced course in rhetoric and themes will be received with satisfaction by those students - and there are many of them - who feel that as far as they themselves are concerned the time heretofore devoted to these subjects has been too short. Opportunity is now offered to gain that practice in writing which is essential to almost every man who would communicate to others his ideas and the results of his study. The aim of the course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this...
...from the Democratic standpoint, while the latter course goes over the same ground, but takes the Federalist side. The work History 1 will be continued through two years. The whole number of elective courses that will be given next year is one hundred and four, a gain of eleven over the present number. We also find that several gentlemen before whose names we have been accustomed to see the plain "Mr." now figure under the more dignified title...
...recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...
...plan, which is being seriously considered, of changing the breakfast hour at Memorial from eight to seven o'clock, with the understanding that the chapel hour shall remain where it now is, seems altogether undesirable. It would cause an immense amount of inconvenience without giving any compensating gain in time. The time allotted for breakfast would be shortened nearly one half, since, in order to reach chapel, one must get to breakfast at least as early as half past seven; and even then there would be no enjoyment of the meal, but a rapid shovelling process, alike disagreeable and detrimental...