Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supposed offense may be brought before the jury by the president, by one of the members, or by any student or body of students, and it is then their duty to investigate the case with reasonable promptness, obtaining their information by whatever honorable means may appear most desirable. They may consult with the president, but he cannot control their action. Having formed an opinion, they decide upon a verdict of fact, which must be agreed to by a majority, and which state the grade of the offense, together with such aggravating or extenuating circumstances as have been allowed to qualify...
...duty of the president to pass sentence according to the verdict, but, if the student can show good cause, he may lower the grade of the offense or remit the penalty entirely. "But," though the president has this pardoning power, "he cannot in any case impose a heavier penalty than that of the grade fixed by the jury...
...value of good notes has been ably discussed and long and thoroughly acknowledge. If, then, as we are aware, a majority of the subjects of study in college are taught by a system of instruction from which the students' abilities to profit rests almost wholly upon his success in getting good notes at lectures, is it not all important that no expedient be left untried which can possibly aid him in this very vital part of his work? In a word, this note-taking, if I may be permitted the expression, is the wholesale industry of the college, and with...
...right to assume, a title of supremacy over all the others? At first there seem to be many causes that act together to give this result. Fortunate location, rich endowments, noted professors, are some of them. One of the principal causes of college supremacy, however, is found in the students. These young men go to college to be moulded into something better, and the success of this moulding process depends more on the ambition of the student than on the skill of the professor...
...there was one action which the overseers took of which every student will approve, and that was the appointment of Dr. Royce to an assistant professorship of Philosophy. Never was promotion more merited. Dr. Royce not only conducted most acceptably the courses in philosophy which last year fell to his lot through the absence of one of the professors of that department,- and this is no mean praise when we consider that it was Professor Palmer's place which he filled,- but also, since he has had charge of the forensice, he has done more to raise the standard...