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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...instructive and useful as on any subject, a knowledge of which is requisite for general culture. At Dartmouth there is a course of lectures on law delivered to the academic students. They do not go into the subject deeply, but enough to read the frequent law terms which occur in articles, newspapers, and books with more intelligence, and to learn in a short time what could only be acquired by a chance explanation in conversation or in years of general reading...
...order of the annual examinations, and the time and place at which they will occur, will probably be made known early next week...
...more abuses occur to us: the closing of the boat house on Saturdays at five o'clock, - the only day for long afternoon pulls and excursions on the river; and the permitting of any one class to have the boats, as in the case of the Freshmen last autumn, for class scratch races. Any mixture of class and club feeling is contrary to the spirit of the club organization and creates ill-feeling...
...have a true idea of the whole region and the relations of its parts, it is almost indispensable. Besides which, it seems to me discreditable that a man should pass through college without knowing something of every important branch of knowledge; yet as things are now arranged this may occur with even the most earnest and diligent student, since in some branches no instruction can be obtained without taking an extended course. This is particularly the case with all branches of Natural History. But the chief advantage would be in enabling the student to co-ordinate and sub-ordinate properly...
...complaints directed against the Faculty might as well be aimed at the stars, as far as they have any power to correct them. However, as the papers pretend to be open to every one, and to be the organ of the undergraduates, now and then grumbling and faultfinding will occur. It is unjust to blame the Faculty for preventing beer in Memorial Hall, or the continuance or discontinuance of Prayers, and yet many are firmly impressed with the belief that the Faculty are responsible for everything that does not suit them...