Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballots will have the names of the three leading candidates for the presidency printed on them and in order to vote a student need only mark his choice and sign the ballot. These signatures will be kept absolutely confidential, and will be used only in order to prevent duplicate voting and the use of fictitious names. There will also be a blank space in which the name of a candidate not printed on the ballot may be inserted. The three men who will have their names on the pasteboards will be Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Norman Thomas...
...Cambridge," averred C. T. Hamton IL yesterday. Hamton is the holder of a Davidson Scholarship and has just come to this country from the English University. "If we do not like a lecture all we have to do is walk out and try another course," he continued. "The average student spends about three hours a day at classes and studies, while five hours a day spent in the pursuit of knowledge is all that could be asked of any member of the college. In America you are far too pressed for time...
...enforcement of the regulation concerning the wearing of caps and gowns is in the hands of the proctor, who always takes two men with him popularly called "bulldogs" to catch any culprits. It is something of a game of hide-and-seek for the bulldogs cannot fine a student unless they catch him off college grounds...
...night a student on being chased by a proctor and two bulldogs ran to the steps of the nearest college where he was safe. Now it is also a rule that every student must be in his own college by 12 o'clock. Since it was 11 o'clock at the time, the proctor sat down to wait, while the student sat down on the steps, confronting...
...When the hour struck, the proctor arose and summoned the student off the steps and demanded that he go to his own college. The student bowed respectfully and turning around entered the door of his own college...