Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...BULLARD.ALL candidates for the University nine will please meet in 9 H'y at 7.30 p. m. Thursday, Feb. 1. It is very necessary that all who intend to try for the nine should be present at the appointed time...
...optional examination system was used for the first time exclusively and proved very successful. The second year of the voluntary religious system has proved even more successful than the first. The report of the athletic committee is most encouraging, and in reply to the critics of our athletics the faculty urge, that dyspepsia is less tolerable than a stiffened knee or thumb, and that effeminacy and luxury are even worse evils than brutality." A new regulation requires holders of scholarships to take two physical examinations during the year...
...time in its history has the Dental School been more prosperous than in 1887-88. Yet it is sadly in need of funds properly to endow its professorships. Several of its instructors now receive no salary what soever...
...Charles Francis Adams, formerly president of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and now president of the Union Pacific Railroad, delivered an informal speech, which we regret that we are unable to give in full. Questions were asked by various members of the club upon important events of the present time, and were answered with the greatest good nature. Mr. Adams is a delightful speaker, and the opportunity of hearing him was thoroughly appreciated by all present. It is to be regretted that more students did not have this privilege, and it is to be hoped that the faculty will invite...
...short time ago, at the close of his course of lectures, Professor Cooke explained very clearly to the freshman class the present great need of a lecture room sufficient to accommodate the increased number of students in his course. This need is yearly increasing and should be satisfied at once. Here, however, as in the other case, the college is delayed by lack of available funds, and so we are forced to wait for a necessary improvement...