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...number of students detected in "cribbing" at the last examinations was unusually large. During all last year only two cases occurred, and the guilty ones received prompt suspension. What punishment was visited upon this year's anxious "riders" has not yet been made known, but it is not likely the increase in number has lightened the punishment. - Cornell...
...college at a regular salary which he will receive as part compensation for his services, his regular charges to students being thereby diminished one half. This extraordinary petition, while it is probably in the interest of many students, yet does not have that university character that should prompt the higher powers to grant it. There are many special athletic exercises, such as boxing, fencing, dancing, good in themselves, which, nevertheless, are not sufficiently general to justify maitenance of teachers at the expense of the college. College athletics are, at best, merely a means for better intellectual work, and as such...
...attendance at morning chapel, the Harvard student has to bear the unpleasantness of this attendance and is interested in all that is likely to make things more to his taste. We suggest, therefore, that men who intend going to chapel any morning, endeavor to be in their seats promptly. The lines of men that file in late almost every morning now give to the services a feature that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt. It used to be regarded a freshman trait...
Memorial, the library and Glacialis, to say nothing of the places of amusement in Boston, were the chief resorts during the vacation. Men were noticeably prompt at every meal but breakfast; Glacialis, where the skating was very good, was frequently visited, and the library had its eye-glassed devotees in goodly numbers. The Christmas dinner at the hall was an elaborate and exceedingly enjoyable affair. Witness the following menu...
PIERIAN SODALITY. - Last rehearsal this (Wednesday) afternoon at 4 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. Everyone must be present and prompt...