Word: years
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...grave violations of good order, seven students were dismissed from college in the course of the year, and nineteen were suspended for periods varying from two to fifteen months." - Dean's Report...
...Faculty have been effectual. And when they have failed of their end, where dismission and suspension have been the penalties, it is no wonder that lesser offences have been frequent. Every one knows, too, that shouts of fire are heard as often now as they were Freshman year. Nor does the number of privates and publics for snowballing ever decrease because the men cease to snowball. It needs no seer to discover the reasons. Not one in fifty of those who shout from their windows can be reported; in snowballing there are few chances that a man will be observed...
...youth should be quite ready to enter college at the age of sixteen," and with students of sixteen or eighteen, the temptations to idleness and dissipation can only be counteracted by a system compelling attendance at recitations. Examinations at the close of the year will not check these evils; they cannot make up for the want of a weekly and daily training, and without such training they are liable to the fatal evil of cramming. Moreover, if attendance on recitations is voluntary, instructors will content themselves with giving lectures, and will care little whether their pupils receive benefit...
...annual cruise of the other. He might have been (though no one would have guessed it from his bent body and trembling hands as he sat there in the dying firelight) leader of the trembling crowd of Freshmen on the Delta on one of the first nights of the year, and given "warning," and followed the spinning ball right among the ranks of the Sophomores, coming out victorious, though with torn clothes and covered with scratches. I remember he seemed to impart some of his fire to me, for a patriotic thrill passed through me as he told...
NOTE.- The few anachronisms here may be accounted for by considering either the narrator's condition, the uncertainty of the year in which the old man graduated, or possibly that there...