Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with him. Now, examination-books are written for instructors; proctors have no right to read them, and those few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination-room...
...letter-box plates can be obtained from the College letter-carrier for sixty cents each, and they will be put on free of expense by the College carpenter. According to postal regulations, no letters will be delivered under the doors of the rooms after this date without a written order...
Many of the legislators of the country have been lately indulging in the most absurd theories of finance. Many have shown by their opinions, written and spoken, the most incredible ignorance of Political Economy. Some will lay this at the door of our republican institutions, and say that it is because in this country ignorant men can be elected to office. But the blame is not to be shifted so easily; the fault lies rather in the schools, which have neglected a most important branch of study. Many of those who show such utter incapacity to deal with questions...
...rhetoric is running away with me, and if I do not hurry back to a calmer and more commonplace style you will soon be laughing at me, and this is almost the only letter that I have written to you which I do not wish to be laughed at. I really think that you ought to convince yourself at the very beginning of your college life that an existence of elegant and useless ease is not the existence to which you were born. We live in a country where men are growing more and more equal every day of their...
...publish communications sent to us anonymously. This week two poems and one or two contributions have been sent in unaccompanied by the names of their writers, and consequently are not published. There are certain things that every paper must insist upon: one is, that articles shall be written only on one side of the paper; and another, that the writer's name shall in every case be known to the Editors. Will those who favor us with communications please bear these facts in mind...