Word: hardships
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whatever may be his suspicions as to proceedings inside. In this respect Oxford is ahead of Harvard. The regulations meant to discourage dissipation and immorality are directed against the temptations of the town outside the college walls. Students are rigorously restrained from frequenting public houses and saloons; this hardship, however, is mitigated by the privilege of obtaining at cost from the college stores as much wine or spirits as is desired. After all allowances are made for debaucheries in other towns, there are good grounds for believing that the moral character of Oxford is exceptionally high...
THERE has been a great deal of complaint lately from those who have been prevented from taking some of the more popular elective courses, and, it seems to us, not without good reason. Without dwelling on the hardship of this exclusion in individual instances, or referring to any particular courses, we wish to protest against the principle of preventing anybody from taking a course which is put down in the elective pamphlet as open to him. If the number in some of the electives must be limited, this should at least be announced beforehand. But we cannot see what...
...stated in the last Advocate that all Sophomores and some twenty-five Juniors had been excluded from Philosophy 6. In the case of Sophomores this is not such a hardship, as they have still two years more in which to take the two courses, if they desire to do so; but it seems to me that it is an act of injustice to prevent any Junior from electing it. It is acknowledged that this course is one of the most important that is given, and it is certainly very hard to have to put it off until the Senior year...
...expense of rooming alone is never so great that it could not be borne without real hardship. And such a way of living could not but be in the interests of study. It is a pity, therefore, that the rooms in the new buildings should have been designed for chums, having, as they do, more rooms in a suite than any except the most luxurious of us could dispose of, if rooming alone...