Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...editorial, the Transcript says: "Here the governor's malice is as ignorant as it is impotent. The State and college were divorced long ago; it has no more exemption from taxation than every other college has, and pays taxes on nearly a million and a half dollars' worth of real estate in this city the same as any other corporation. There is no way for Gov. Butler to begin to make the college pay in loss of money for refusing the degree. The loss of money to be apprehended in the matter was from those who would have withheld intended...
...fence, which would certainly not be an impossible feat. The next dangerous objection is that of opposition to the plan by students themselves. This objection we believe to be entirely without foundation, and it is to be hoped that the students will take some method to make known their real position on the question...
...frequently objected by the upholders of the old system that the student, when left to himself, will choose injudiciously, and will choose easy courses. Those who put forward these arguments as of any real weight only display thereby their own ignorance of the subject. The average age of the Harvard sophomore is something over 20 years, while he is limited in his choice, first by the rule that he must take only such courses as his previous studies qualify him to pursue, and, second, by the advice of his parents and instructors. If one who lacks only four or five...
...alumni of Cornell University, in New York city, have arrived at a wise conclusion as to what is the real greatness of a college. The truth that no institution of learning is great unless it stands definitely for some great idea or traditions is one that has been newly enunciated by a committee of the Alumni Association of Cornell, in New York, and acting on this view of the cause of the decline of Cornell of recent years, the association is to set itself about a reform in the administration of its affairs. It is claimed the number of students...
...Real property, first year, Thursday, June...