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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cannot refrain from commenting on the conduct of an Examiner, who was present at a recitation in English 2 one morning this week. At the close of the recitation this gentleman expressed to the class his dissatisfaction with the way the elective was conducted, advocating reading with expression, and going over less work in the course of the year. The instructor, in defending himself, said that his idea was to go over as much ground in the course as possible, and not to attempt fine elocution and expression in reading. A discussion followed before the division, in which the Examiner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...last Advocate, in an editorial, makes a personal attack on the instructor in Sophomore Rhetoric. The writer of this piece implies that the instructor is neither "sensible" nor "competent," and is to blame for the ill-bred conduct of some members of his class. The Faculty is recommended to discharge the instructor at the end of the year, and it is suggested that it might be well for the University if he should be dismissed even before that time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...much to give again a pretext for taking it away. The Weld entries are proverbially uncomfortable, on account of both the darkness at all seasons and the cold in winter that pervade them. This, at least, is a step toward reform; and, doubtless, it depends only on the conduct of the students themselves to get rid of many relics of a similarly barbaric nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...room. The Record severely remarks, that "the criminals should be dealt with to the full extent of the law"; but its severity is tempered with the milk of human kindness, as we see by the remark that, "should the suspected party choose to make full restitution and explain his conduct to the officers of the reading-room, he will avoid further exposure, and the chastisement incident upon it." What a comfort it must be to suspect somebody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...purpose to show that the standpoint of the self-styled independent man - a phase of college character which we felt sure every one would recognize - is a ridiculous one, and to open his eyes, if possible, to the fact that his independence is not the only line of conduct open to manly men. Now "G. E." denies that the "independent man," as we have tried to portray him, exists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INDEPENDENT MAN. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

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