Word: rids
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very evenly distributed, the two history courses open to them receiving the greatest number-about eighty each. This is all very pleasant, so far; history is a subject well suited to freshman year, and the instructors in Latin, Greek and Mathematics probably congratulate themselves on having got rid of their slowest students and the worst of the examination books. But we cannot tell yet. It will be two or three years before the effects of the change will be fully felt. The friends of Latin, Greek and Mathematics will be sorry to see the advanced electives in these subjects slowly...
...seems clear that, in a case like this, where the students are so directly affected, their desires ought to have a good deal of weight in determining the result. To ignore them and to aim for a higher moral standard regardless of consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions...
...restricted. It was thought advisable to leave that to be determined by the students, provided, of course, that the number of games arranged does not require an absence from town longer than that permitted by the athletic regulations. Secondly, the committee were unanimous in their purpose to get rid of the professional element...
...Several of them during the Christmas recess visited Philadelphia, the home of Captain Cook, trying hard, under his personal instruction, to forget the disastrous stroke used last year. Part of the plan to overcome the old fault has been to make the crews row on stationary seats to rid them of the overlong slides necessary before this change to the '73 stroke. These stationary seats have now given place to short slides and long heavy oars. Two or three times each week the crew met at the boathouse or on the campus and take long runs into the country. These...
...publication has passed into the hands of the college, we notice one gratifying improvement, that the advertisements which used to mar the back part of the book have been kept out altogether. This has the double advantage of making the book considerably less cumbersome, as well as getting rid of so objectionable a feature. The number of students connected with the college proper is given as 972, showing a gain of more than forty over last year; the whole number in the university is 1522, a gain of nearly a hundred over last year. This shows a most gratifying increase...