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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the proposition to abolish the customary class-day exercises, the Oberlin Review says : "We understand that the question is coming up of abolishing the class days. Of course, in the past, there have been some reasonable grounds for objection. The principal one is, that they tend to increase the expenditures, which necessarily are becoming greater from year to year. We do not think, however, that anything which tends to develop a spirit of unity and class enthusiasm should be put down...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Within the past week circulars have been sent to the members of the Sophomore class, stating that the class crew is heavily in debt, and asking for immediate aid. According to the circular the amount owed is about $1200, and unless $200 is subscribed before the 1st of March, the crew will be obliged to disband. This statement has occasioned much surprise among most of the members of the class, and has called forth some rather unfavorable opinions on the management of the crew. Few men realize how expensive a crew is; especially a freshman crew...
...preceding year have places on the committee. In this way not only would scholarship be represented, but the services of men of marked ability would be secured; for if any one will take the trouble to glance over the list of those who have led their classes during past years, he will find the names of some of the finest men who have ever been graduated from an institution of learning. Let the undergraduate look at the men who have taken the highest rank within his short memory, and he will be convinced of this. Scholarship has none too much...
...past week the Faculty have taken another step in the direction of establishing relations of more perfect harmony between themselves and the students. The committee, appointed from the different classes, will soon be called upon to express their views as to the best method of a permanent conference...
...members of the faculty may have perfectly just intentions, but the enforcement of the athletic regulation of the past year has surely been of the nature of "taxation without representation." The public meeting and the call for expression of student opinion and advice, have merely afforded a shield for the members of the Athletic committee, from the charge of undue severity...