Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Theme I. will be due on Tuesday, October 9. It is to be autobiographic in character, on some topic at once personal and significant, such as "Why I Came to College," "What I Hope to Accomplish in Life," "How I Pass My Time," "My Favorite Amusement," or the like...
Themes are to be deposited in the wooden box in Sever 3 not later than 4 o'clock. By the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted unless the writer satisfies the secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance...
...members of the University are entitled to register as borrowers on the presentation of the bursar's certificate. There volumes can be taken at a time, and may be kept one month, and renewed, if not in demand. Any person keeping books beyond the prescribed time is subject to a fine of ten cents a day for each volume. Books reserved by officers of instruction, and unbound periodicals, are in open alcoves in the reading-room, and can be taken out, at the close of Library hours, when properly charged at the delivery desk, and must be returned the next...
President Patton has been ill for some time from an abscess, but has now resumed his classes...
Another evil attends the practice, now become so common, of intercollegiate matches. As these contests approach, there is more or less distraction of the minds of the students from their proper pursuits, and for the time being a more or less serious neglect of study. This is an evil inevitable while the present system is maintained, and is of sufficient magnitude to justify, in the opinion of the undersigned, an absolute prohibition of intercollegiate games altogether...