Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sever the right to refuse to sell tickets for their concert to any one not a member of the University? He refused tickets to one person, not in the University, claiming he had the right to refuse tickets to any one. This person may have been acting for a student, but unless he had positive orders on the subject, I do not see how he could refuse to sell tickets...
...faculty of Cornell have just passed the rule that if a student is guilty of intoxication, gambling, or other gross immorality, or of interference with the personal liberty of any student, he will be expelled from the University. It is understood that the law will be rigidly enforced...
...examination, each student will receive one of his briefs and be expected to elaborate carefully the argument he has outlined...
...examination papers will present three or four disputed questions of sufficiently varied and general interest to enable each student to treat one of them. Accompanying each topic will be a syllabus of the evidence, pro and con, upon which the controversy rests; and from this syllabus a brief must be constructed and an argument elaborated to sustain the proposition and meet the objections presented...
...more general conclusions that athletics are diverting the students from the object for which they are sent to college, I think, in order not to give an unfair picture, it should be stated that side by side with the increase in athletics, there has been a marked increase in the intellectual activity of the students. Formerly 33 per cent. was the minimum required in each course for a degree, I believe. Now the minimum is 40 per cent., and in addition to that, the student must stand above 65 per cent. in at least one-quarter of his studies...