Word: partially
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exist in those days and, of a consequence, the delights and glories of college hazing and rushing were unknown to the simple-minded barbarians of Athens and Rome. It is a fact, we believe, that in our day there are one or two institutions in Germany where a partial system of student-government is in actual operation. But it was reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation...
...theory our system is good - as here practised it is a partial failure. The executive power is vested in the usual officers, from president down to marshal. The legislative power is vested in a senate composed of twenty-one members. Every legislative act requires the signature of the regent to become a law. The judicial power is vested in a court presided over by a chief justice and two associates. There are also meetings of the general assembly. It reflects rather severely on this system, that if all the officers, save the marshal, the prosecuting attorney and the justices, were...
Still, as I have said, the failure is but partial. I believe that a system of self-government by the students can be formed which will be popular, effective and broad enough in its scope to escape the odium which has become attached to our form...
...college life. And this is not to be regretted; for, in proportion as the narrower spirit of class declines, a broader university spirit springs up in its place. Harvard has reached a successful mean between a too intense class spirit and a too bloodless university spirit, barring perhaps a partial survival of the former in her freshman class, one anomaly of the many anomalies of that institution at Harvard. That class spirit will ever entirely disappear from American colleges as now organized is impossible, if it were desirable; but that it should be carried to such extremes as we have...
Pach advertises himself as photographer for Yale '82. This is but a partial statement, as he is photographer to the Sheffield Scientific School only. Howland is the college photographer...