Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"For grave violations of good order, seven students were dismissed from college in the course of the year, and nineteen were suspended for periods varying from two to fifteen months." - Dean's Report.
This remark naturally will remind many of the latest case of suspension, which for a time excited no little comment, and has not yet been wholly forgotten. Of this case it is not my intention to speak particularly, but it has occurred to me that, however officious it may appear...
The fact that there have been violations of good order, and of such a character as to call for severe measures, shows that not all the rules of the Faculty have been effectual. And when they have failed of their end, where dismission and suspension have been the penalties, it...
Severe penalties are, however, sometimes adjudged for what seem to the majority of the students but trifles. I do not doubt that each one can think of examples in his own class where this has happened. Suspension under the best circumstances is open to the charge of injustice. It is...
Our relations with our instructors are for the most part pleasant. There is not, as is said to be the case in many colleges, a continual state of warfare between students and professors. Their hesitation in dismissing a man is very grateful to us, while any requests on their part...