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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...determined to see that the seniors received justice at the hands of the faculty. They instructed their committees to notify the seniors that unless the faculty reinstated them soon on reasonable terms they would withdraw from the institution. The seniors, feeling that this meant utter ruin to the institution, whose interest they have at heart, decided if possible to overlook the wrongs which they have received at the hands of the faculty, and make amends for their act of disobedience by submitting the following apology under protest, all of which seems to redound far more to the credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COALS OF FIRE. | 3/2/1883 | See Source »

...instructor's methods of instruction a large part of the benefit of his teaching, even if there is any real merit in it, is lost. Prescribed courses are at the best apt to be unpopular, and in such cases there is all the more reason for choosing men whose abilities will command the respect of those studying under them, while in the case of elective courses the appointment of an unpopular man inevitably tends to a falling off in the number of those taking the courses under his charge unless the popularity of the elective is kept up by artificial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1883 | See Source »

...junior team pulls at about 4.20. It is composed of the same men as last year, with the exception of Bryant, whose place is generally taken by Crane. LeMoyne has come back, and is now practising with the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TUG-OF-WAR TEAMS. | 3/2/1883 | See Source »

...been determined upon simply because the managers think they can get it. They should remember with what disfavor the project of charging extra prices was regarded last spring in the base-ball games. We should be sorry to observe any attempt at extortion in a college organization whose chief end should never be to make money, or to have it lay itself open to the suspicion of such a design...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMISSION TO THE H. A. A. MEETINGS. | 2/28/1883 | See Source »

Great dissatisfaction is felt with a recent rule by which only communicants are ever allowed to substitute attendance on a Poughkeepsie church for Sunday morning chapel, and then only on the communion Sundays of their respective denominations. Until 1876 students whose parents preferred them to attend church in town were allowed to do so regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELIGIOUS DISCIPLINE. | 2/27/1883 | See Source »

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