Word: persons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...development and success of foot-ball that it should be constantly played. Of course this is the special point upon which we take issue with the writer in the Advocate; whether the game can be carried on successfully during the coming season. We are confident that if any person has taken the pains to go out on to the grounds on any afternoon of last week, he must have seen enough to convince him that foot-ball, if not the leading sport at present, is at least running a close race with other out-of-door exercises. It will...
This year every person who draws a room and signs an agreement must pay the whole rent himself, whether he uses the room or not, and he cannot transfer the room to any one else, or allow any other student to occupy it. No transfers of rooms are allowed, except in case of exchanges, and rooms which are not wanted can only be disposed of by surrendering them at the Bursar's office. By means of the new regulations we may look forward to a more just division of vacant rooms this year. As the number of applicants will...
...Class Subscription Fund. These two funds in '75 amounted to $20,000, and were in the care of the Class Secretary. Now, as this office in itself involves a great deal of work, and the management of the class moneys is now such an additional tax on the person under whose charge they are, it seems as if the duties might well be divided; formerly when a class consisted of only some sixty or seventy men, and the funds were only a thousand dollars or so, the duties of the secretary naturally embraced those of treasurer, but now the classes...
When, however, these people are publicly encouraged in their insolent error by a person whose authoritative position lends to his most senseless words a certain degree of importance, I feel it my duty as a conscientious man to raise my voice against the fostering of notions which may damn the future of our nation...
...education, or it can undertake to educate all who choose to come to it. In the latter case the education can never be thorough, but it may be useful; in many cases more useful than an education in itself more perfect but less adapted to the needs of the person possessing it. But an institution established for this purpose must adapt its regulations to its ends. Men who come to college to be educated expect the college to do the greater part of the work. They wish an education rubbed into them, and naturally look to the college...