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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present day the American people are confronted with the fact that the weakest point in their plan of government is the mode of choosing a president.- O'Neil's Am. El. Sys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/26/1888 | See Source »

...general ticket system is (a) sectional and dangerous; and (b) lessens political interest. Under a district system there could be no "solid South."- O'Neil, Am. Elec. Sys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/26/1888 | See Source »

...amateurs in the immediate vicinage of our city. In other athletic games, especially in baseball, our students have engaged to an extent that has proved neither profitable to those participating nor conducive to the best work on the part of the rest of the college. That some intelligent and sys emetic attention ought to be given in all our colleges to physical culture may be regarded as a universally accepted truth. The attempts thus far made among the colleges to agree upon some uniform rules for the regulation of contesting games among their students have failed, for the very simple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Robinson's Views on Athletics. | 10/15/1884 | See Source »

...this a College? Yes, this is a Gall-age (pat. applied for). What does a College consist of? A Gym-na-si-um, a Fac-ul-ty and An E-lec-tive Sys-tem. Is the College rich? No, the College is poor, So poor that it can-not Provide Chairs for its Professors and So they are obliged to Sit on the Students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/1/1882 | See Source »

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