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...elected by acclamation. Mr. Fiske, the captain of the crew, then stated that the crew was financially embarrassed, and that unless $200 could be raised by March 1st, and $600 by April 1st, it would be impossible for eighty-seven to be represented in the Class races. No definite action was taken, but the members of the class were urged to contribute liberally...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-Allow me to express a very general opinion of an instructor's action in publicly ridiculing the mistakes in composition which students made in examinations. With the evident intention of exciting ridicule, extracts are read of themes which have been written under great pressure, when revision was impossible. The instructor starts the laugh, and naturally the students are not slow to follow his example...
...students are to be consulted. The overseers and corporation are the persons who have the power to say whether such things as voluntary prayers shall or shall not be; but a favorable vote on the part of the faculty cannot help having an influence on them. Therefore, this action of the faculty ought to encourage all the signers of the prayer petition...
...would be as liable as any one else to credulity over it. When so sober-minded a body of men, however, as the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about Spiritualism; The first is that the belief in Spiritualism has become so wide-spread that men of the most intelligent class are not ashamed of publicly undertaking an investigation of the testimony for the existence of spirit-communications from another world...
...Michigan were subjected to the same system of exorbitant charges which formerly prevailed at Cambridge, and that, inspired by the success of co-operation, as shown by the great reduction in prices secured by our society, they determined to found one of their own. The effect of this action was immediate. The local tradesmen who had formerly kept prices up to a most unfair standard by their concerted action, were compelled to make immediate reductions. In fact, the leading book-sellers advertised the works required by students at a drop of nearly 30 per cent. from the prices demanded...