Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fairly be assumed that whenever a member of the faculty votes for restrictive measures, it is because he doubts whether in that particular case the students are able to regulate the matter themselves. In the present instance the doubt has never been as to the propriety of celebrating victories-the more victories, and the more celebrations of them, the better, is, I feel sure, the sentiment of every man in the faculty, but as to certain features of the celebrations, the loud explosions which make the college a formidable nuisance to the neighborhood by keeping people awake and imperilling such...
...with the name of the student offering it. It is requested that a card of the size of a postal card be used for each list, and that the list be written on one side of the card; it is hoped that the students will regard it as a matter of courtesy to comply with this request...
...annual, and the intervening days are devoted in most cases to hard study. Cramming, as this pre-examination study is almost universally called, takes a number of different forms. The lower classes, whose time has been almost entirely devoted to mathematics and the classics, have little option in the matter. To cram up successfully, the text of the works must be gone over in some form. In mathematics the propositions of geometry and the problems of algebra are reviewed with more or less care, according to the natural taste of the student for the subjects. Some men, good in every...
...time comes for the "cribber" to enter the examination room he places the sheets under his tightly-but-toned coat, walks boldly into the lions' den, seats himself at his table, and hastens to write a page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done...
...location of the cricket crease is attended with great danger to spectators of base-ball games on Jarvis. Several narrow escapes are reported, and a few days ago a student was temporarily disabled by being struck with the heavy cricket ball. It is a very simple matter for the men playing cricket to so locate themselves that the most likely direction taken by the ball will not be into the crowd gathered about the base ball field, or sitting on the few seats yet remaining on Jarvis. If no other location for the cricket crease can be found, every possible...