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Although the members of the faculty seemed particularly reticent about disclosing anything in connection with their meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the result of the discussion which took place then has leaked out. After a protracted debate on the subject of voluntary prayers, the board decided by their vote to put themselves on record as favorable to the plea made in the recent petition presented by the students. This is another step in the right direction, if the wishes of the majority of students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power...
...finished our semi-annual grind, and it may be interesting to look about us and see how our student-brethren of other colleges have passed their ordeals. The semi-annual examination has just been ended at the military academy at West Point. Considerable surprise is expressed over the result, there being a very large number of cadets who failed to pass. Five were sent back from the third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them are likely...
...most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded the year previous to the formation of the society. Such a result as this naturally was properly appreciated by the students, and they have entered so thoroughly into the spirit of the reform that its success is now assured. After seeing what has been accomplished by a society founded in imitation to that at Cambridge, it cannot be other than a disgrace...
...authorities have made use of a fine lot of coarse clinkers to cover the slippery side-walks. The walking as a result, is rather "mountainious...
...committee should be chosen." For this introductory conference, the four men each, to form the student committee. This method of representation applies, of course, only to the coming conference; the Faculty, and the committee of the Faculty, know perfectly well give, and look forward, as the main result of the first conference, to the solution of this, the most difficult problem in the whole matter of student arbitration...