Word: remains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DOUBTLESS the marking system will long remain, as now, the mystery of mysteries of college life, - one of those things which, as Lord Dundreary would say, "no fellow can understand." In vain we seek of the Faculty, of proctors and instructors, of graduates and undergraduates, for an exposition of the principles of this mysterious institutions, which hear without argument, judges in secret, and from whose decision there is no appeal; an institution unmoved by entreaty, callous to criticism, and stoically indifferent amidst the ruin it has wrought. It is not my present intention to censure this system...
...sorry to learn that Professor Palmer is to leave us until April, and that this absence is caused by the ill-health of his wife. They start for the Bahamas immediately, and will remain there until spring. Those students who are under Professor Palmer's instruction will find any change of teachers unpleasant and disadvantageous; and his wide circle of friends will regret his absence, for few instructors have a greater personal acquaintance with the undergraduates or a deeper interest in their welfare; he has the sympathy of us all, and our heartiest wishes for a favorable journey...
...some young men do remain and take postgraduate courses, do they not? There is young X., who did not graduate till he was twenty-three, and then spent a year or so in travel and study previous to entering the Law School. He can't be admitted to the bar till he is twenty-seven at least; and yet he don't seem to think he has been wasting his time. The young man whose room in Stoughton my nephew borrowed for his Class Day told me that he had got ninety-five per cent in his college course...
...does all this would be a cross between a boor and a fool. When "Ossip" shows the necessary connection between independence and such actions he certainly will show how unsatisfactory a thing independence is; but in the mean while the old prejudice in favor of it will remain...
...deprived many others from using it in the meanwhile. This is done through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing a book, instead of replacing it on the shelf where he found it, leaves it on the table, where it may remain the rest of the day. Not finding it on the shelf, we infer that some one is using it, so give up further search...