Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This year the Board has transferred three more tables and increased the number of men at them. It is impossible to accommodate more men with the present facilities for cooking, yet the Overseers are desirous, we understand, of adding two more men to the club tables, which would leave to club tables only their name and enter a wedge toward general tables for the whole hall...
...however small that element may be. We dislike to take up again the same old complaints and harp in the same old lines. But year after year the great privileges which we enjoy at the library have been abused and reserved books have been deliberately and wantonly stolen. We understand that already reserved books have been stolen this year and from editions which are few and valuable. We enjoy a decided privilege in this system of reserved books which enables us to read the best works in literature and history and philosophy. That it should be abused so disgracefully casts...
...objectionable features are removed and it is yearly bettering its condition. It has proved an agreeable feature in the fall and spring concerts of the musical clubs, and it offers to its members, besides a pleasant fellowship, an excellent opportunity for practice which every musician must appreciate. Moreover we understand that there is a possibility of more concerts this year than usual. Therefore, since there are still many vacancies in the orchestra, the officers of the society hope that every instrument player in college will attend the final trial tonight...
...number of courses and passed them satisfactorily, the degree of A. B. has not been lowered. Now if such a student wish to obtain the degree of A. M. in his fourth year and is capable of so doing, the value of the degree is not lowered thereby. We understand that this year there are such cases before the Faculty, and the result will be awaited with considerable interest...
...feel that the disgraceful uproar that occurred in the yard last night cannot be too strongly condemned. We understand that a large element and the best element of Ninety-five was opposed to the rush and took no part in it. To them we feel confident that we may express the approbation and the thanks of the university, though we regret that their good influence was not sufficient to avert the scene of last night. The individual members of the class who took part in the rush can feel that they have acted in a childish, ungentlemanly part, which...