Word: submitting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...performing his duties well, instead of one whom they can dismiss at pleasure. Experience has shown that it is next to impossible to obtain the dismissal of any College officer, no matter how inefficient he may be, so we suppose that we must make up our minds to submit to a petty despotism...
...right granted by the Faculty ? We had supposed that professors, as well as undergraduates, are amenable to the regulations determined upon by the government of the College, and the former ought to set an example of obedience to the rules established by proper authority. We are obliged to submit to a marking-system, if that can be called a system, in which each instructor acts upon a theory peculiar to himself; and this evil we have endured, because no way has presented itself by which we could escape from it. But is each instructor also to construe the rules...
...safely presumed that all reform in regard to the matter of the green doors on University is hopeless, and we must gracefully submit to the blows on the face which they continually give us. But why cannot we have both the outer doors open at recitation-time? The pushing and crowding and frequent collisions which occur every hour are anything but pleasant. To be sure, those who are going in never hurry; but the numbers of those who are eager to get out keep many waiting and cause great confusion. All this inconvenience might be remedied by leaving both doors...
...Phillips's best performance is 7 min. 38 2/5 sec. Such work as this is highway robbery under the guise of handicapping, and is a disgrace to all who are responsible for it. When the club next give any handicap games, if they will submit to us their list of entries, we will cheerfully furnish such information as will enable them to frame a just handicap and avoid such abominations as we saw last Saturday...
...firm opinion that it would have been better for the college if he had been dismissed, when he refused to resign, at whatever cost. When a man is asked to resign, it ought to mean that he will be put out if he does not. We would respectfully submit that this would have been better than to have the scandal hang on so long, and finally appear in full in the papers...