Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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Although regarding ourselves as a medium for the expression of College opinion, we also regard it as part of our duty to prevent any hasty and extreme utterance of such opinion before the facts of the case are fully known, feeling, as we do, that such opinions have too often lost their proper weight by ill-advised expression. Before inquiring into this particular case, we must indicate, with all due respect to the Faculty, one cause which, we conceive, has produced by far the larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which...
...that such an idea ever occurs to the large majority of the instructors is not the fact. Now, with all due allowance for the trivial character of a College paper, and the unavoidable demands on the time and labor of an instructor, we still think that this is a medium of communication which should be used. That the College papers are not better than they are, is as much the fault of the instructors as of the students. Nor let them think that there are no appropriate subjects on which to contribute. Advice and information on electives, text-books...
...Professors in their peculiar fields of study; for with so many eminent men in our midst, whose influence is felt in the outside world, it is surprising how little we know of what they are doing. We never know them for what they are except through a medium external to the College. A direct knowledge of their attainments - for they are, or should be, nothing but more advanced students - would incite us to greater exertion, and give occasion to higher thought...