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...recent action of the Corporation in refusing the Crimson's subscription renders appropriate the suggestion that a part of '80's College Fund be spent for board-walks...
...previous advice has been more worthless than the salt on an animalcule's eyeball, in the evanescent futurity of molecular action, I have by means of cosmic interpolation evoluted the followed restrictions, which have been gratuitously inscribed for me by my majestic biographer, from the homogenous particles of the solar system...
...condition of his remaining in college, take those courses in which it is easiest to obtain a high rank, thus following no fixed plan of study, and leaving college without having enjoyed its highest advantages. How the Corporation and the Faculty have arrived at the conclusions that influence their action it Would be interesting to know. But perhaps the son of the pastor of a wealthy parish, or a student who pays $250 for his room, or one who spends the summer in Europe, is entitled to eleemosynary considerations...
...usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some of the professors forget that students make a university, and that professors' chairs have been endowed for men whose work it is to instruct students. It is therefore highly unjust that instructors should continue this practice in order merely to suit...
...Perry presiding. Mr. Perry stated that some of the members of the class and the crew were dissatisfied with both the elections for the captain of the Freshman crew, and also that they were both illegal. The president then stated that the meeting had been called to consider what action should be taken to elect a permanent captain. Mr. Crawford was then declared the temporary captain of the crew, as he was the only one that had been elected at a legal meeting. Mr. Crawford then called a meeting of the candidates for the crew for Thursday...