Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...play, especially when they receive little or no support from the members of the class. When the Yale nine came up here, fully seventy-five men accompanied them, and they certainly found it more difficult to leave college than our men will, since they have but six cuts a term and for every absence from a recitation they receive a mark of zero. Why does not eighty-nine show some enthusiasm in this matter and encourage their nine to repeat the success they met with four weeks ago? Let every man in the freshman class who can possibly leave college...
...final examination in N. H. 4 will cover the work of the entire year, but especial attention will be paid to the work of the last term. Two blue-books will be required of all students who take it as a full course...
...allude to the insult offered one of the most respected officials of the college by a crowd of men who collected underneath his window and amused themselves by throwing firecrackers and torpedoes against the panes. Such childishness is not to be tolerated at Harvard; and childishness is a mild term for such ungentlemanly conduct. We are glad to say that student opinion condemns all nonsense of this kind, and we trust that in future celebrations, no amount of excitement will make Harvard students forget the respect due to instructors and their own positions as gentlemen...
...Observations are also desired at regular intervals from noon to six p.m. on certain days, whether a thunderstorm is in progress or not. These days will be called Term-days; they will be appointed one and a half to two days in advance by special message from the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, and will be announced to the public by telegraphic reports to all newspapers of the New England Associated Press. They will be days on which thunder-storms are expected. Most of the important newspapers have agreed to print these Term-day announcements...
Professor Lane will take his sabbatical year next term...