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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...patriot can rank himself with that list, has not lived in vain. But highest is the ambition - neither personal or patriotic - to be a Christian. No names will be brighter than these. To do this you must make yourselves men; and what he meant by this term, he illustrated by quotations from Aristotle and Emerson, and an English poet. - Yale News...
Among the officers of the society were, besides those already mentioned, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale, E. R. Hoar and Charles Theodore Russell. The last meeting was held July 8th, 1839, and was adjourned, the journal says, to the first Monday of the next term...
...member of the senior or junior class may be absent from eight class room exercises, and a member of the sophomore or freshman class from six class room exercises during the first term and during each half of the second term . . . The term class room exercises as here used includes recitations, lectures delivered on those courses which are subject to examination, and rhetorical appointments. Under this rule . . . a tardiness of more than five minutes or an egress will be counted as an absence...
...Conditions - A student who is deficient in any study of the first or second term, may be required to pass a written examination on the same at the beginning of the next term. This examination will be upon the day preceeding the beginning of the following term. If a student fail to pass at this special examination, he will be required to try again at a session of the next succeeding semi-annual examination, and failing at this, at the next...
...There are three classes of students in college: those who study hard all year around; those who do light work during the term, making it up by over-work at examination time; and, finally those who do little or no work, the year through. The first class will evidently be benefited by the removal of examinations. They work to the full extent of their powers. They need no stimulus. The second class will be urged to do better work during the term, a most beneficial result. The third class would in no wise be effected by the rule...