Word: persons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...second point is of rather more importance. By law, voting for Overseers is allowed only in person in Cambridge. Of course only a small portion can be here on Commencement Day, and by this provision the majority are deprived of their suffrage. And there is no need of this, for votes could be received by proxy, and thus all who cared to have a voice in the management of the College could do so. Usually there is very little rivalry for the office of Overseers, and the result of the election is satisfactory to everybody. Still there may come...
...mental training which they receive. A level head and a broad judgment will be active and intelligent in whatever work they are engaged; and this breadth of judgment and intelligence of thought is just what college with its four years of recitations and examinations will give to any person who is capable of receiving it. It is untrue, then, to say that a man who has derived these advantages from a college course is inferior to the man who has not done...
...HAVE often been struck with the number of epithets that are applied to our University. As each person's opinion differs, so does his epithet. A fond mother declares that Cambridge is a horrid place (whatever that may mean) for young men. A maiden aunt, who has heard of her nephew's troubles, that it is as much as a boy's life is worth to go to such a college, and that she would not send a son there if she had one. A father, that it has great advantages, but is frightfully expensive. Our young lady friend...
CORRESPONDENTS of the Boston Transcript have given their views this week upon the behavior of undergraduates at the Boston theatres. Much of what they say is only too true, and we are among those conservative persons who believe that a few men have no right to disturb a large number of their fellow-beings by disturbances in public places. We have heard the other side of the question maintained. There seems to be an idea in some minds that if a person disapproves of actions either on the stage or in the auditorium of a theatre, his proper course...
...Faculty to devote not more than eighteen days to the Semiannuals, and that to fulfil this end it was found necessary to assign some examinations to the afternoon. It has been the endeavor of those who have had charge of the schedule to arrange the examinations so that no person should have two on the same day, and they have succeeded entirely, except as regards such students as are making up conditions. A number of cases have occurred this year in which students have had several of their examinations occur closely together in the first few days. This shows plainly...