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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accompanied by his family, returns from China where he has been discharging the duties of United States Minister for the last two years. Preparations have been made by faculty and students for his reception, but as yet Dame Rumor is responsible for such details as are known to any save the favored few. The knowing ones announce that Prexie will be met at Detroit by acting President Frieze and the deans of the various departments of the university, together with the presidents and marshals of the various classes in each department, and escorted to Ann Arbor. On arriving...
...once to discipline our young gentlemen, believing that they had been very properly arrested by the town authorities and punished according to law. Since their action we have suspended those found guilty. Stung by the odium cast on the college by the late riotous proceedings, all of the students, save three or four who were absent at the time, have signed a pledge not to indulge in it during their college course. During my presidency of about ten years I have always demanded pledges from those who transgressed college laws, and in all that time I never once heard...
...well-known professors in philosophy has been in the habit for some time past, of having the men of his courses come to his house separately, after an examination, and read their blue-books to him. Although this is done to save the professor's eyes, at the same time the practice combines many very material advantages. For although almost every one is dissatisfied with the result accomplished on an examination paper, or with the mark returned, there is usually no method of finding out in what one was right or wrong. This is especially true of those more indefinite...
...while the freshman course remains so arbitrary and unattractive in so many respects, and while its scope is so diffused and its arrangement so incoherent, it is to be expected that men will be driven to partially neglect certain subjects, and then to resort to the cramming system to save themselves at the end, whether the subjects be taught by lectures or by the most antiquated and iron-bound sort of recitations possible...
...Boston papers may be of interest to our readers. Nearly all are of the opinion that it was a good joke, and nothing more. The Herald of Wednesday morning said: "None of the Harvard boys made any disturbance upon entering. All sat quietly throughout the lecture, and, save by their absurd dress, they were a credit to the audience. . . . The intention of the immature young persons from the Harvard freshman class to disturb the lecture by appearing in the midst of it with their masquerade, were baulked by Mr. Wilde, who had been given an inkling that something...