Word: various
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same points, and any doubts he may have as to forget-fulness among students will, I think, be removed. The fact is brought before us in a peculiarly vivid manner, with which we are all more or less familiar, by the requests of our successors for assistance in various electives, after an interval of a year or two. The embarrassment into which such an appeal often puts us, to say nothing of our pitiful attempts at concealing our ignorance, is a matter of too personal experience to need allusion...
Sets forth his store of good things various...
...above report has been received, and its perusal has convinced me of the fact that the committee have been examiners in deed as well as in name. The insight the report gives into the real merits and defects of the various departments is a proof of the conscientious diligence with which the committee have performed their task. They have, by a personal and unannounced attendance on the recitations in each department, been able to judge of the instruction from the students' point of view, and have not formed their conclusions from the reports of the instructors themselves. The influence...
...church of the First Parish, the exercises of Class Day and Commencement were held last June in the Chapel instead of in the church. Then disappeared the last trace of the official connection between the College and the First Parish, - a connection which had been maintained in various forms for more than two hundred years." - President's Report...
...regards the course and hotels, New London and Saratoga seem to be the only places which promise to come up to the wishes and expectations of rowing men. In an article which appeared in the Magenta several weeks ago the writer strongly urges the selection of New London, giving various reasons for his preferring that place to Saratoga...