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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...affair between the President and a society of limited membership, it is not a question to be discussed in a College paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates in general and those who govern them. It is put beside several other incidents of a similar nature, and derives, in consequence, an importance which it would otherwise lack. It has been pronounced to mark a line of policy which the authorities intend to adopt - have, in fact, already adopted - towards us; and hence it has aroused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...with the floor, whoever is seen making any disturbance is pounced upon by the Directors and expelled or suspended, to serve as a warning to others. What right the Directors have to do this we fail to see, unless it be for the reason that as the authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed to them, they feel bound to exercise it on the student, rather than take what would appear to rational beings to be the most natural course, namely, to remove the casus belli by prohibiting visitors from Memorial Hall during meal-time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim to a clearer understanding of the motives which govern the actions of the "powers that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST STRAW. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...MEETING of the Athletic Association will be held in the Gymnasium next Saturday morning at 10.45. The Rules to govern the contests, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

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