Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good crews, in order to retain possession of the cup. One other item that will add to the comfort of those who row is that a passage-way is to be cut from the club-house into the University house, and thus members coming in from rowing can easily get to the bath-rooms without being obliged, as heretofore, to go around on the outside...
...Trouble is brewing about the Gymnasium. Tenpin ball and Indian club do not get the needed rest upon the Sabbath, and the Gymnasium officers are accused of carelessness...
...School of Homoeopathy falls to receive fair play at the University of Michigan. Dr. Palmer, an allopathist, lately gave a lecture to the students on the homoeopathic method of preparing medicines. The homoeopathists can get no room in which to reply...
...object of these examinations, and the attainment of that object. As I understand it, their purpose is to test the accuracy and thoroughness of the student's work during the half-year, and upon their result to base his mark and relative standing in his class. To get a good mark, to stand well in his class, is the desire of every good student, and everything should be done by the College authorities to give him legitimate assistance. But does the present system of examinations give the student a fair chance? I think not, for the following reasons. I defy...
...lack of vigor. Legate, while faithful and strong, has some serious faults. The use of his slide is bad throughout, and, when forward, he doubles over his knees instead of opening them and letting his belly down between, which, by the way, would enable him with more ease to get a good reach. He settles at the end of his stroke, lets go of the oar with his outside hand, and does not hold up his head; but all the time he is pulling very hard, and, when cured of his faults, will make a trusty oarsman...