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...escape by means of a staple?" "Oh, friend, know once for all that this progressive university cannot carry out to the end all plans for your welfare, nor exercise a parential care over you, thus inculcating the first principles of independence of action. The lesson to be learned in this case is, that if you buy a rope about 150 feet long, and fasten it to the staple, you might escape, provided the rope did not burn before you reached the ground." What we wish to impress on everybody is, that if he neglects to obtain a rope after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/1/1884 | See Source »

Pursuant to this action, there will be thrown open to competition by all students, at the entrance examinations in September, 1884, six scholarships, of the value of two hundred dollars each; in September, 1885, six more scholarships, of the same value; in September 1866, six more; and in September 1887, six more-making the entire number of such scholarships twenty-four. And from the income of the second fund there will also be thrown open to competition by women at the entrance examinations in September, 1884, three scholarships of the value of two hundred dollars each; in september, 1885, three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS AT CORNELL. | 6/13/1884 | See Source »

...recent meeting of the senior class at Dartmouth it was unanimously voted to protest against the recent action of the faculty in indefinitely suspending the editors of the Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/7/1884 | See Source »

...later dispatch from Dartmouth says that the men are not suspended, the trustees as yet having taken no action. This later communication says that instead of expulsion the with-holding of degrees was recommended. As the matter now stands, there is some uncertainty, and we shall have to wait for further confirmation before finally believing either report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIFFICULTY AT DARTMOUTH.-TWO EDITORS OF THE COLLEGE PAPER SUSPENDED. | 6/3/1884 | See Source »

...office should be kept open until ten o'clock in the evening. The nine would no doubt contribute a little towards affecting this change, and Cambridge business men might add the rest if the company feel unable to move in the direction of improvement. What is needed is action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1884 | See Source »