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...clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately as to the student's position, in order to judge him. This has happened enough within the last five weeks to warrant one in enquiring into the position of the faculty towards such a student, All possible witnesses are interrogated, but, as the "Dickinsonian" says, "it is very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1887 | See Source »

...understand to what he refers when he says that the vote was due to a misunderstanding and that it is not yet settled. To what vote does he refer, and why has it not yet been settled? Perhaps he will have the kindness in some future communication to inform one who wants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE '88 TUG-OF-WAR TEAM. | 3/24/1887 | See Source »

...assaulted by eight boys all anxious to dispose of a Record. As a student approaches the hall he encounters several boys who act as skirmishers, and if he gets past them he is met by the main body of boys who rush at him with a howl and inform him of the sole reliableness of the paper which happens to comprise the greater part of their stock. The boys seem to think that students come to the hall to amuse them and that it was built for their especial play-ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

...jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/10/1887 | See Source »

...slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1887 | See Source »

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