Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excuse themselves on the plea that the articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student who is guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush for Harvard when we have to refer again and again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again...
...meeting of the Handel society of Dartmouth College, the time for initiating freshmen was changed to the winter term. A prize of $25 was offered for the best song composed before the next commencement, to be known distinctively as the college song...
...price of board to be charged on the fall term bills will be $4.00 per week...
Candidates for the Yale crew have been working spasmodically during the fall term. Ex-Captain Flanders coaches them off and on. The names of the men are: Cowles, '86, (captain); Appleton, '86; Rogers, '87; Caldwell, '87; Middlebrook, '87; Hartridge, '87; Farrington, '86; S. Farrington, '88; Stevenson, '88; and Woodruff, '89. Peters has positively refused to sit in the boat again, and Paton has not yet appeared at the boat house. Captain Cowles finds the optional system a serious drawback to his getting the men out together and thus far not very satisfactory results have been attained. - Post...
...members of different corps never recognize each other during the time while the term is in progress, but those at the head of each corps meet and arrange the duels, and the members fight as they decide. This fighting takes place every Tuesday and Friday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; and, as a result, the students who have been fighting soon appear with their faces done up in cotton and carbolic acid. In these duels it is impossible for anyone to be killed, for the combatants wear about the neck and body thick leather pads, and thick glasses before...