Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authoritative definition of the policy of the faculty be put before the students so that hereafter they may know what regulatious or changes to expect from the faculty, and may not again, as has once been the case, have this sense of justice and fair play outraged by the sudden adoption of any restriction by the faculty without fair notice. We would also certainly hope that as a result of this conference more cordial and less distrustful relations may be brought about between the faculty and the students. But this can hardly be unless the former will abandon its present...
...have an indefinite idea of the location of the ladders, and doubtless one or two might be put into position in time enough to save a few men from a burning dormitory, but in all sudden alarms there is of necessity a great deal of excitement and confusion, and "what is everybody's business is nobody's business." Now a trained and efficient life-saving service might be organized if the men of each building should select some one to take command of their body in case of fire, and on an alarm, should assemble at the place where...
...arise. It would of course be useless to ask for any better appliances for extinguishing fire or for saving life, and we must therefore turn our attention now to the apparatus which is at hand, and consider how it might be put into effective action in case of sudden need...
...preparation is short. Then again special care should be taken by an instructor to see that the date for such an examination does not conflict with anything else. There are many stumbling blocks in any man's routine of study, such as Forensics, Themes and Theses, and the sudden addition of an hour examination does not make the prospect any more encouraging. But we will not particularize further,-so long as we have the system of hour examinations, let them be meted out to us under the most favorable conditions...
...upon the team itself is to be noticed. Each player, instructed in these details, gains a much keener insight into the game and a familiarity with concerted play, all of which enormously increases his resources and thus renders him doubly effective. Moreover the danger of any demoralizing effect of sudden changes in the play is minimized. The effect of such a system upon the game itself is undoubtedly to strengthen and render it more scientific. As a matter of fact, the rough nature of the game has rather withdrawn attention from the fineness of its details and the perfection...