Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a gain of 59 students in the academical department over the numbers of last year. The statement that was published to the effect that this department had sustained a loss is incorrect...
...number of special students just posted shows the enormous gain of 39 over last year, making 109 in this department. The whole number of academic students this year is 1065, a loss of three from last year...
...hardly fair to charge every student with dishonesty who finds himself guilty of cribbing. Probably but very few of the cribbing class hope thereby to obtain an unfair advantage over their classmates. College honor would surely condemn a man who cribs so as to obtain a scholarship, or to gain a position on the Phi Beta Kappa. Such a motive would mark a man in the estimation of everyone, a thief and hypocrite. Cribbing cannot be prevalent among men who desire to become scholars. The very earnestness of their efforts, and the nobility of their ambition would war against such...
...perusal of the above changes, it will be found that the referee is given almost unlimited power; he can declare the ball "down" whenever he sees fit, disqualify a player for off-side or unnecessarily rough play, and declare a game forfeited if either side should seek to gain anything by delay. He is absolute, no one can question his decisions, and he is unhampered by judges. With the proper man as referee, there is no reason why the game should not be entirely freed from its objectionable features...
...should slight this important subject. The decisions of important questions, and even the fate of the plan of conference, depend on the life and ability of the committee for this year. Let every one vote intelligently and thereby gain success. Other colleges are watching our conference. Let it be worthy of imitation...