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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authorities at the library to a certain extent, and recent papers have been collected and bound for use in the reading room; but for some reason the assortment is by no means as complete as it should be. The mid-year papers have not been kept for the past six or seven years, although these are the very ones now in demand. The old examinations are of little value on account of the continual advance in the courses and change of instructors, and the corresponding variance in the character of the questions. The constant use which is made of even...
...university crew have been rowing on the river the past two days. The seniors and sophomores were on the water yesterday...
...been the custom in past years for instructors to ask for the blue-books to be used by students in the examinations. Much annoyance is caused both to students and instructor by non-compliance with this simple request. It is disagreeable for the instructor to be obliged to resort, for punishment of the offenders, to the expedients of school boy days; yet it is eminently proper that some mode of expressing displeasure of the student's action should be found. The most common way is loss of the first few minutes of the examination. But this mode of punishment makes...
WILL the following men be at the gymnasium ready to row at half-past two, sharp: Weed, Smith, Hunt, Travers, Duffield, Chase, Lathan, Jones and Thomas; and the following at three o'clock, sharp: Watriss, Goddard, Rantoul, Hubbard, Porter, Steed man, Dewey and Cheeney...
...more reserved books than he can use at once, that forsooth, when he wishes to study them he may not be obliged to wait, is doing a positive injustice to his fellow-students. Thoughtlessness has been made to serve as the mask for a multitude of sins in the past, but we now intend to give the true name to such actions, viz., inexcusable selfishness. He who collects a stack of books in an out-of-the-way corner is doing no more nor less than robbing his comrades of the privileges for which they...