Word: term
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore-Freshman base-ball game and fight came off, as in former years, the second Saturday afternoon of the term...
OHIO. - (21 students.) - Every person has a right to vote who has resided in the State one year next preceding the election. The legislature may prescribe a term of residence in the county, township, or ward in which the voter resides...
...more than the editorial which begins: "It is the boast of all Yale men, that the discipline of this institution tends toward the cultivation of manly and independent qualities; and we behold with pride, and make much of the fact, that Yale men are free from what we term the foppery and affectation of the Harvard undergraduate." With this exordium, which shows that habit will exercise its sway in spite of the best resolutions to the contrary, the Record, in the new spirit it has announced, forgetting all bygones, humbly states that "beneath the dandyish exterior of the Harvard...
...students, however well they may have worked during the term, are obliged to do a great deal of "grinding" for the Annuals, it is very important that the dates of the different examinations should be fixed as early as possible, in order that students may know just how much time they will have to spend on each subject after the recitations have been suspended. In case two or more examinations are fixed for successive days, it is necessary that it should be known some time beforehand, in order that students may study up such subjects before the close of recitations...
...Last term a number of students were suddenly apprised that they would have several successive examinations before a week was over, and there being no time for proper preparation, low marks and much dissatisfaction was the result...