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...excellence of the debates in the present society. The cordial cooperation and encouragement of the President of the Union and others, who opposed the scheme of the Legislature as a branch of the Union, but warmly advocate it as an independent society, would entirely prevent the action of those who now make this proposition in your paper from being misconstrued into an attempt to damage the Union...
...light of a considerable experience, the Faculty determined to adopt the simple provision with respect to students of all classes, that habitual absence is prima facie evidence that the student is not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at the University, and calls for inquiry, explanation, and such action as may be found fitted to the special circumstances, and that irregularity of attendance, unless accompanied by good scholarship, is to be treated and regarded in the same way. No scale of penalties is stated, and no precise line of absences or scholarship is given, the design of the rule being...
...spring of 1880, a distinguished graduate of the college informed the president that he intended to give ten thousand dollars for that general purpose whenever the corporation, after consultation with the professors, should have arrived at a system of administration which commended itself to their judgment. Since the action of the president and fellows on the 29th of November last, this gentleman has contributed twenty thousand dollars to the `retiring allowance fund.' This fund is, therefore, fairly started; and those friends of the University who think that its interests would be greatly subserved by the establishment of a system...
...recent action of the authorities in regard to the Annex and the Library is held by some to be an arbitrary exercise of power, an inquiry into the propriety and justness of the action of the authorities cannot but be pertinent. First, let us see how much the library privileges of the Annex have been abridged. The Annex is allowed to take out books on the same terms as the College. In the reading-room of the Annex, books taken from the Library are reserved as they are in the Library for the College. Finally, whatever books on the reference...
Looking only to the present, there was no cause for the action of the authorities, as only three of the young ladies were accustomed to use these alcoves, - so few that objection could not be made to the room which they occupied. Looking, however, to the future, the action of the authorities was timely, reasonable, and just. The number of men who study in the Library is rapidly increasing, and it will not be long before there will be a question of room. But behind all this there is a principle involved dear to all those who wish...