Word: predictions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...abolition of compulsory chapel, and we look to the completion of the canvass which is at present going on, for confirmation of this statement. Nobody has ever for a moment supposed that there would not be a small minority which would favor the existing regime, but we confidently predict that the entire student body, practically, wishes its abolition. Any claims to superior age or wisdom, we wish modestly to deny: it has always been our object, as our correspondents know perfectly well, to voice the sentiments for our students, not to "arrogate to ourselves" the task of their guidance...
...choice of electives at the end of the freshman year embraces many diverse branches of learning. Yet a college career, putting aside the minor studies or specialties, must fall on one of the two roads of learning, the classical or the practical. The former road we may safely predict is fairly well known and understood by the students, of their school education has been the average one, and it is the latter course that gives the tyro the most difficulty to classify. Roughly speaking, a classical course of study embraces mathematics, history, modern languages, philosophy and political economy and English...
...confidently predict, that either '84, '85, '86, or '87 has a sure thing on the race...
Since the excitement consequent to the sparring contest at the winter meeting has died out and it is too far into the future to predict anything about those which shall occur next year, the present seems a most advisable time for discussing a change in regard to them. Some few complaints have been made from time to time against allowing any boxing whatsoever at the meetings, but that any such radical change will be made, or even that such a move would be desirable, we do not believe. But there is one point that has been gradually forced upon...
...most beautiful, could be played by Professor Paine at recitals and he would thus afford an opportunity to hear music out of the common. But Professor Paine's recitals are rumors and perhaps will never be given. The influence of music is elevating and refining and we may safely predict that music lectures or recitals would be well attended...