Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choice of periodicals to be placed on file seems at first a rather strange one, but it was made by a committee after noticing carefully what papers and magazines the men who use the room cared for and could appreciate. The magazines chosen are intended to interest and attract men to the room as well as to instruct...
Realizing these things, the authorities are guided by no inelastic rules in allowing "cuts"; but as far as possible each student's case is considered on its merits. As long as his record in his courses and his standing at the office are good, he is allowed to use his own discretion pretty freely as to the number of cuts he can make. When his record is poor, however, he forfeits his privileges and is held more strictly accountable for his absences...
...meeting of the Administrative Board of the College held last evening to consider the petition of the undergraduates to deal leniently with the students who were detected in the use of firearms on the night of January 26, the following vote was passed...
...while recognizing fully the wantonness of the disturbance on Tuesday night, January 26, believe it to have been due rather to the thoughtlessness of the men engaged in it than to any vicious purpose and we beg the Administrative Board to treat with leniency the students detected in the use of explosives on that night...
...think that the time has come when the whole college should unite in an endeavor to put a stop to such disturbances and to relieve the college of the scandal which they cause. We therefore promise to refrain from the use of explosives and firearms either in celebration of athletic victories or at any other time, and to do our utmost to discourage and prevent the use of such explosives during the remainder of our college course...