Word: learning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...doubtless that you wish to learn...
...lost degrees on Commencement Day. Now, if I were you, I should not, on the whole, get dropped; I admit it is rather "swell," and gives people the impression that you have come to college only because it is the proper thing, and not to learn anything or prepare yourself for such a vulgar occupation as earning your bread. Still, some men who are gentlemen, and even have money, do not get dropped, and it might, you know, gratify your parents to have you "get through...
...learn that it is the desire of the Faculty to secure such an arrangement of recitations on the Tabular View as shall need little, if any, change for two or more years; in this way it is hoped that men may partially or entirely select their electives for more than one year. This is obviously a great gain to students, and we hope it may be found practicable. The Faculty further intend to arrange the examinations, next year and in subsequent years, so far as is possible, in accordance with the groups on the Tabular View. We also understand that...
...given by the Hon. Hugh McCulloch in Sanders Theatre. It is certainly a great privilege to have such valuable lectures brought within easy reach, and to be enabled to listen to a gentleman who has made such a name in this department. We are glad to learn also that this course, if successful, will be the beginning of a series of University Lectures, given under the control of the University, but supported by outside subscriptions. It is certainly a much more sensible plan to give lectures of this sort in Sanders Theatre, and have them open to the public, than...
...crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat of the University. There are many people who cannot understand that...