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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...serious matter, the whole system of buying and selling notes. Few stop to think what an evil this is or to what it might lead; those who carry on this habit do so merely with a view to their own convenience. But we must look at it from a higher stand point, and perhaps an encouragement to that shirking and postponement of work which it cannot be our sober wish to see increase. Furthermore, it is a means by which one man is paid to do the work of another. This puts the custom on a par with that despicable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1886 | See Source »

...purpose of the associations has been to investigate all questions affecting the higher education of women, and by scientific methods to enforce the theories of those advocating such education. The two objections most frequently urged against the advanced training of women are, first, that they are physically incapable of it; and, second, that it will be detrimental to the best interests of society by withdrawing women from domestic life. The first subject undertaken by the Eastern Association was an inquiry into the effect of collegiate education upon the physical condition of women. Elaborate statistics were collected by the Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/7/1886 | See Source »

...they realize that hap-hazard ways often prevail in many households; that while much has been done to open new lines of work to women, but little has been done to improve her work in those fields that have always been considered by the opponents of higher education for women legitimately hers. Plans have therefore been perfected to make extended inquiries into the advantages afforded for the industrial education of women, to consider the practical results of what has already been done, and to devise the ways and means for giving further help on this much-vexed question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/7/1886 | See Source »

Members of the graduating classes of the Law and Medical schools, special students, and candidates for higher degrees will be allowed six yard and three Memorial tickets on payment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Day. | 6/4/1886 | See Source »

...Class Day Committee. We took occasion last year to comment on the character of too many of the visitors in the yard on Class Day. If the number of yard tickets allowed to each senior could be made less, the character of the Class Day visitors would be much higher than it has been in past years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/4/1886 | See Source »

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