Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Wood will take No. 2 in the boat, in place of Wescott resigned...
...Captain Collin of the Crew is ill, so Captain Cook may row in his place...
...CHANGE is to be made in the classification of the studies for next year, and Professor James's course, Natural History 2, will be found hereafter among the electives in philosophy. The mere transfer of the elective from one place to another in the Catalogue of course is of no importance; but the fact that the change will allow this course to count for honors in philosophy is very important. Every one who has tried to keep posted on the philosophical speculations of the day knows how important it is to have a knowledge as complete as possible...
...satisfactory reason, and obtaining permission to do so. If the students to whom these rules apply are men, they certainly are quite able to judge for themselves as to the expediency of playing billiards and smoking; and the infantile regulations by which they are controlled are out of place and ridiculous. If, on the other hand, such rules are appropriate, the students must cease to aspire to the title of "men," when they act and are treated like boys just entering their teens...
...have received, the appreciation of students. The childish habits of hazing and rushing have been entirely dispensed with, and the general improvement in tone among members of the College has been everywhere apparent. There are some respects, however, in which we are still behindhand, and occurrences occasionally take place which border upon the puerile amusements generally confined to the smaller colleges. Society initiations of a rough character originated among the boys of sixteen or seventeen who were in college when the societies were founded. Now, however, students are much older, and as the Faculty have abolished boyish regulations...