Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result of the practice of this theory - whether observed in national or in college politics - is not all that can be wished for. It cannot be denied that offices are frequently assigned to persons totally unfit to hold them; and while it would be folly for a student to venture to advance his opinions upon the proper government of a great nation, an expression of his theory of the proper constitution of a college class is by no means so ridiculous...
...year as well as final examinations in electives taken to work off conditions; in the case of a prescribed study a condition may be removed by attaining over fifty per cent at an anticipatory examination, provided the study is not pursued longer than a half-year. Notice of a student's intention to make up any condition during the academic year must be given to the Registrar on or before October 15 of that year...
Fifty unexcused absences from prayers are now allowed, and during absence on excuse or for a prolonged stay two cuts are deducted every week from this allowance, which is diminished by ten, as before, if a student is regularly excused from Monday prayers...
PROFESSOR to Student, whom he meets walking unsteadily up College Hill: "Been on a drunk?" - "So have...
Original works of art are of course beyond the reach of any college student. Heliotypes are so thoroughly within the reach of everybody that, very naturally, nobody wants them. What you do want and need are good photographs and tolerable engravings of pictures or of statues or of buildings or of scenes which everybody has not seen, and which everybody does not see in every room that he enters...