Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time of his death Cameron was a member of the Junior class, of which he was the President. He had passed most of the Honor examinations during his course, had taken several prizes, and had obtained the second Junior appointment. For several years past he had been a member of the choir of the Church of the Incarnation. It had been his long-expressed intention to devote himself to the ministry of the church...
...second necessary reform is to allow a man to be a candidate for the same prize but once. It is reasonable for a man who has taken a second prize one year to try for a first prize the next year. But for a man to take the first prize for two successive years, seems to us unfair...
...other hand, the greatest possible liberty is given the student, and the formation of his character is left to depend entirely upon himself. Both plans are open to censure. The first, by depriving the student of all voluntary power, does not teach him to rely upon himself. The second gives him so much liberty,- at the youthful and inexperienced age at which most students enter,-that opportunities are thrown away, and habits are thoughtlessly formed which are not discovered until too late for their correction. A mean between the two, which would give all possible liberty until some restraint...
...College is to have the Boat-house on condition of paying off the existing mortgage and fixing up the second story with two hundred or more lockers, a bath-room, with shower-baths, bath-tub, hand basins, etc., and a reading or sitting room. There are to be reserved for the University Crew their present room up stairs and one compartment down stairs...
...Friday, May 28, a large crowd of the undergraduates and their friends assembled on Jarvis to witness the second game between Princeton and Harvard. There was considerable delay occasioned by trouble in finding an Umpire; Hodges, '74, who had agreed to fill the position, not putting in an appearance. Finally, Mr. Denton, of the Scientific School, was chosen, and consented to act. Game was called at 2.35 with the Harvards at the bat. The first innings closed with a blank for both sides. In the second innings Kent got his first, Thayer went out, when Ernst got a heavy...