Word: student
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marking system at Columbia has been abolished, and now a student is simply rated as proficient or deficient. The number of allowed absences has been reduced from one-fourth to onefifthy of the whole number of recitations...
...athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory...
...spite of the unpleasant weather last evening, a large number of people gathered at the first of the Student Meetings held in the Globe Theatre. All the seats in the orchestra and dress circle, and nearly all of those in the family circle were quite filled with an orderly and interested audience. President Eliot and several people from Cambridge were seated in the audience. From seven o'clock till half past the chorus of about one hundred college men sang several hymns while the congregation were being seated. At 7.30 o'clock the regular services began. Prof. Peabody conducted...
...attention of students is specially called to the directions of the English Composition card. Each student is held responsible for a knowledge of those directions, and is expected to follow them implicitly...
THOSE who are to act as ushers in the student meetings at the Globe Theatre, will please be at the main entrance at 6.45 sharp Sunday evening...