Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Since the change in the College color last year, there has been such an indefinite idea as to what shade of crimson was the shade, that a committee was appointed to look into the subject. Their report is as follows...
...told by one of the authorities that a man who had forty-nine per cent in one mid-year examination, even if he had eighty or a hundred in all other studies, would lose all his chance for a degree that year; and, finally, that the opinions upon the subject, expressed in an article which we print in another column, are the opinions of the Crimson...
...person for whom the theme is written has, it is to be presumed, either less ability or less power of application than the person whom he employs, therefore he might, should he be thrown on his own resources, get conditioned in the subject, and the result of this would be a decrease of self-respect. Now, this would bring about more moral injury than the other alternative, and, therefore, the conduct of the buyer of themes is morally justifiable...
...sufficient ability to learn as much Greek in one elective as another man does in two, why should he not be allowed the advantage which his natural capacity gives him? The test by which honors should be awarded is the amount of knowledge a man has of his subject, not the number of hours he has studied it. When we come to a realizing sense of this, we may hope to see as many men, in proportion, graduate here with honors as come out with distinction from the English universities...
Absences from prayers and tardinesses without good reason came under the third head, and were subject to the following penalties...