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...junior class of the Ohio Wesleyan University is to be expelled for passing resolutions of condolence with the junior class of Adelbert College at Cleveland, who were expelled for holding a "Tempus" in opposition to the wishes of the faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/15/1882 | See Source »

...evening of November 28, nearly the whole body of students of Adelbert College, formerly the Western Reserve College, indulged in a forbidden traditional frolic termed by them a "tempus." So far as known they did nothing worse than to act boisterously and possibly burlesqued the college attaches and regulations of which they do not approve. The faculty thereupon expelled the entire junior class, numbering seventeen. Immediately all the students met and unanimously adopted resolutions that they will quit the institution and go to other colleges unless the junior class be reinstated. The resolutions were presented to the faculty, whose response...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1882 | See Source »

...totally different from Greek), I wrote in this tongue stories of Indian mythology which I thought might be parallel to the Greek myths. When the examination was over, I walked out feeling that, whatever the examiners might say, they could not accuse me of being commonplace. Well, tempus fugit (notice my exact knowledge of Latin quantity). One day I received a notification commonly yclept a summons. Veni, vidi, vici. The assembled Faculty received me with uncovered heads. The chairman of the returning board bored me with an address three hours long. He alluded in feeling terms to the evidence contained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RATHER SURPRISING. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

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