Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the success of class day must depend largely upon the officers of the senior class, the class itself must be depended upon to do its share. In the case of the class song, the senior class has certainly been very negligent. The rehearsals have not been attended as they should have been, and many of the class do not seem to know the song. As it is absolutely necessary for the success of the exercises around the tree that the song should be learned by the class, the chorister is especially anxious that the last two rehearsals be largely...
...faculty at Middlebury College, Vt., have an unpromising row on their hands. The programmes for the last junior exhibition were stolen, presumably by the sophomores. Now the faculty have divided the bill for the stolen programmes among the sophomores, and assess every member of the class for his share. The sophomores refuse to pay, and there is talk about expelling them...
...make the latter building useful as well as ornamental. The few examinations held in Massachusetts cannot compensate either faculty or students for the loss of valuable space which might be used for recitation rooms. Amid the general craze for improvement the old gymnasium has come in for its share of discussion, and perhaps is the most worthy building of all to be put into active use. It is a shame that it should be suffered to remain idle as it is at present when one thinks of the many victories gained by the ball teams that it has contributed toward...
...share of the bequests made to several colleges by the late Henry T. Morgan of New York, has been received and has been applied by the corporation to the establishment of four new fellowships for advanced students. By the regulations adopted by the academic council, the holders of these fellowships are to be persons carrying on their studies in Cambridge in the departments of philology, philosophy, history, political science, mathematics, chemistry, physics, natural history or music; but it is not necessary for an applicant to have received an academic degree or to be a candidate for one, the test...
Field sports receive their due share of attention. Lovers of foot-ball, baseball, cricket, etc. find all that their hearts could desire in the famous playing grounds of Eton. These grounds consist of a large extent of beautiful park country stretching down to the river, and divided by avenues and pleasant groves of oak and chestnut trees into three broad lawns, smooth and well sodded. Eton has possessed these playing grounds for a hundred years or more, and they have been the scene of many a fierce battle at foot-ball and of numberless contests of all sorts between teams...