Word: whether
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...permitted through your columns to express surprise at the conduct of a part of the Freshman class during Lectures? Every year the class just beginning its college career seems to be expected to improve on its predecessors. Whether this expectation is to be realized or not, depends as much on their good behavior when in the recitation-room as it does on their excellence in their mental and physical capacities. Laying aside the respect due to their instructors, which is apparently of trifling importance to some, the annoyance it gives to those members of the class who wish...
...early in the year to tell whether the employing of janitors and their corps of assistants, vice goodies, is a success, and we do not intend to fall into the error of making any bold assertions about the matter just yet; merely a suggestion or so will be enough. Some have complained that the rooms are not well taken care of by the new goodies, and there is ground for the complaint. True, there has been a slight improvement shown since the beginning of the term, but still we would urge upon the janitors the necessity of paying strict attention...
...that there will probably be no Symphony Concerts given in Sanders Theatre this year. It is scarcely possible that the necessary four hundred and twenty subscriptions will be obtained in time to make all the arrangements. Perhaps the announcements were not made nor the subscription-lists opened soon enough. Whether this be so or not, there is something else to account for this failure: the concerts are no longer fashionable. We once thought fashion a word that the enlightened people of Cambridge carefully erased from their Webster's and Worcester's, but a residence of a few years here...
Shall strictly enforce Law 3, and shall be the sole judge of fact as to whether or no any man has gone over his mark...
Hardly any subject, from hydrostatics and dynamics to the last Jerome Park race, can be broached but he will discuss it with fluency and confidence. Whether he knows anything about the subject or not, he will do his best to impress his hearers with the breadth and depth of his information...