Word: order
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...
...statement: "In some courses voluntary recitations are now simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...
...present Senior class, by their vote to abolish the Chaplaincy, made one change in the order of exercises on Class Day. Whether this was done wisely or not, it is not my purpose to discuss, but now that the door is open for reforms, are there not other changes that can well be made, and other alterations incidental to the management of the affairs of the graduating classes, which could be made advantageously...
...Tuesday. - We started out to go to Cambridge, lying to the N. E. of Boston, in order to see their college and printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken...
...Messrs. Shilleto, '79, and Martin, '77. Mr. Shilleto took the prize, after a very good exhibition. A contest on the parallel bars followed, and was participated in by Messrs. Brett, '77, Livermore, L. S. S., Sigourney, '78, and Preston, '79. Much time was wasted through the lack of some order of movements, by the performance of which the relative merits of the contestants might have been more quickly decided. After much deliberation the prize was awarded to Mr. Brett. The standing high-jump was next in order, and was well contested by Messrs. Hall, '76, Latham, '77, and Martin...