Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...through the columns of a contemporary, an opinion on the subject which wins approbation from some of our best legal authorities and most devoted friends of the university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain. It indicates unmistakably that the degree may be voted, handed over, and then probably reclaimed. The writer's argument discusses the power of the overseers to take a much milder stand - to abstain from the final execution of the charter-power until certain...
...petition to the faculty requesting the extension of the Thanksgiving recess from Wednesday to the following Monday was signed by 664 students. The faculty, however, instead of making the recess longer than usual, have shortened it to one day. Their meaning probably is that, while the students complained because the journey to and from home consumed in most cases the whole time granted, it ought not to be a great hardship to spend the day in Cambridge. [Harvard Correspondent of N. Y. Post...
...doubt and uncertainty surrounding the Thanksgiving recess has been cleared up, I think it is time to give the college some expression of the views of a large body of students who did not approve of the measures made use of by two of the papers to obtain a longer recess. I was just as anxious for the two extra days as any one in college, but I do not think that the way to gain such a concession is by ambiguous editorials inciting students to take an unfair advantage of one of our most valued privileges, that of voluntary...
...spirit and aims of our Vassar contemporary are high and altogether worthy. If the rest of the college world will but join in the scheme with as sincere and earnest a purpose as is exhibited by our sisters at Vassar, its outcome and uses would no longer remain uncertain...
...send a man from the foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment, or, in other words, they could not make two fouls without being disqualified. Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come...