Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Lately students to the number of two hundred paraded the streets of Ann Arbor and finally adjourned to the ball-ground, where Physics was burned amid a great deal of speech-making. For a novelty this year they were to repair en classe to Rettich's beer saloon. Imagine a...
One of the professors in Michigan University lately resigned, and the Chronicle ascribed this to the "meddlesome disposition" of a Professor of History. In the next issue there is printed a communication from a graduate, signifying his hearty assent to the manner in which this paper treats him of the...
Not content with having dealt such a staggering blow at the above-mentioned professor, they print an article entitled "The Classics and Courtesy," in which another instructor has his character badly mangled. Some glimmering of its nature may be derived from the following sentence: "Perhaps there is something in the...
MUCH attention has been called, during the past eight or ten months, on the part of the newspapers, to the changes in agitation at Harvard. Some have censured, some approved, the liberality of the University Officers in taking such bold steps toward their universally accorded aim, a University system similar...
The mass of reformation so published and criticised, when sifted down, appears most sorry in dimensions. The greatest reform we have been guilty of is the dethronement of Hazing. We say guilty, not out of sympathy with Hazing, but rather from commiseration for the Sophomores, of which class the "customary...