Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Cornell faculty are having a great deal of trouble in enforcing the fifteen hour rule, by which no student can take more than fifteen hours a week, unless by special petition...
...editorial in the last number of the Advocate on the Couference Report is misleading in one or two respects. It deplores the omission of a clause specifying that a majority of student members shall have power to call a meeting of the conference, and states that there was an understanding between the faculty and the faculty members of the committee to that effect. As a matter of fact, the faculty left the whole question as to how and when meetings should be called to be decided by the committee itself-that is, to the student members. Such a matter falls...
...second place, as to the report faculty members are to make to the conference of action the faculty may have taken on the resolution of a previous conference, the Advocate says: "It would be better if the student members felt they had the right to ask the grounds on which the faculty based its action in case of disagreement." The faculty struck out the original clause requlring this, not because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give...
...occasional leave of absence is granted for an extended trip to Siberia. This rustication is not preceded by a warning or a summons. U. 5 would have no terrors for a Russian. On the whole, their student life is as far behind the German as the latter is behind the English or American. The universities, however, exert a powerful influence on national thought and life...
...lectures in Boylston Hall illustrated by lantern slides on the Historical Sites and Monuments of England and France. These lectures will be given on the remaining Monday evenings of May, beginning May 11, at 7.45 P.M. The object of these lectures is to impress on the mind of the student the prominent facts of early English History by exhibiting photographs of remarkable sites and monuments as they now appear. The lectures are open without tickets to all members of the university...