Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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AN article on "Vacations" has been sent to us. We very much regret want of space prevents its publication in full. The idea contained in it is this: that in the earlier part of our Academic year students are favored with a respite from hard work, when they do not...
Every one knows that there is much more work demanded of students in preparing themselves for their annual examinations than at any other time during the year. This extra labor is required when the energies of the mind are wasted by the tediousness of a six months' drill. This is...
NOT long since, an article was published which discussed the present system of college penalties. At that time almost every student was delighted with the near prospect of voluntary recitations and the abolition of morning prayers. Then it was the custom to praise the Faculty for their liberal opinions in...
The season has passed, however, in which privates can be given for handling snow; still, numbers every Tuesday visit the Dean to receive punishment for their misdeeds. Our police authorities are quick to espy any man who carries a bat or ball through the yard. From the time he comes...
Such matters as these, far from exciting the indignation of the students, meet with their ridicule. A more serious bit of information has recently been given to us. For failing to hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the...