Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...American college life are numerous and important. It is, in the first place, a mirror of undergraduate sentiment, and is either scholarly or vulgar, frivolous or dignified, as are the students who edit and publish it. A father, therefore, debating where to educate his son, would get a clearer idea of the type of moral and intellectual character which a college forms in her students from a year's file of their fortnightly paper, than from her annual catalogue or the private letters of her professors. To the college officers, also, it is an indicator of the pulse of college...
...Monday morning lectures of last term have been replaced by recitations. The Record attacks the change on the ground that it encourages Sabbath-breaking in order to prepare the recitation; and the Courant thinks that "the scholastic merits of a lecture are never clearer than after a Sunday's rest, and from such a date it always remains fondly vivid at annuals." We wish that words could induce the Courant to wrap itself in the mantle of its advertising pages; for the popular prejudice favors a cover on a college paper. For seven columns the inside pages of the paper...
...their members, some of the more important examination papers, and a statement of a number of such cases as are argued before the clubs. The club system, with which few undergraduates are acquainted, will be explained, and the cases are stated, both to render the manner of work clearer and in order that any club may readily secure a case for argument by reference...
...final result of the charge would require knowledge of proceedings to which ordinary mortals are not admitted. I must leave, therefore, the implied statement that "about half" of the Faculty are hypocrites "to a more or less extent," to be disproved by some one who lays claim to a clearer understanding of the motives which govern the actions of the "powers that...
...their own domain. This encroachment was particularly noticeable last Commencement Day, and in one or two cases under-classmen deliberately marched into and took possession of rooms to the almost utter exclusion of the graduates. It is to be hoped that by next Commencement Day students will have a clearer sense of the proper line of conduct to pursue, and, henceforth refraining from further intrusion, will leave the graduates to the unalloyed enjoyment...