Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That Dr. Ward has succeeded in exciting a popular interest in Anthropology has been abundantly shown by the large audiences that have gathered in Upper Boylston Hall on the evenings of his lectures. Last night proved no exception to the rule, and by half-past seven the hall was well filled. Dr. Ward had chosen, as the subject for his closing lecture, "The Benefits of Anthropological Study...
...from the annoyance of men dropping in some time after the lecture or recitation has begun. But we wish to voice the great number of complaints that we have heard recently about the lack of co-operation on the part of many of the instructors in regard to this rule. Some keep men to long after the hour that it is impossible for them to get to their next recitation on time, especially, if their next recitation room is across the college yard. This happens frequently in the rooms at the back of Sever Hall where the college bell...
...this rule in regard to prompt attendance is to be so rigidly enforced would it not be well for all the instructors to bear it in mind and close their lectures on time...
...Samoa. What commerce there is carried on by Germans. A stronger government is needed to secure life and property there, for the natives are acknowledged to be incapable. There is no good reason why the country having the greatest commercial interests in the islands should not establish a firm rule there. Our treaty interests would not be infringed nor would our coaling station be lost...
...moral philosophers, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he contemns them and contemns their calling. Now and then a professor of unusual force or shrewdness or attainment, keeps his place in the memory of his old pupils as a guide, philosopher, and friend; but as a general rule, our American graduates, and especially those who succeed in life afterwards, are apt to remember their college days mainly as days of fun with their classmates, and very rarely as days of instruction from men of stronger minds and longer experience...