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...attempt to start another magazine was made for four years, when two freshmen conceived the ambitious idea of founding a new publication. They enthusiastically called a class-meeting and submitted their plan to their fellows, who were unanimous in their approval. But as some of the upper-classmen took the matter in hand the freshmen yielded the field and the seniors and juniors started the new journal, which was called the "Harvardiana." The first number, of octavo size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer...
...faculty of the Ohio State University are trying to make arrangements by which upper classmen will be able to draw books from the State Library...
...quite impossible to summarize the results of all the examinations or show the light in which the individual students regarded them. There appears, however, to be a very general idea among the upper-classmen that the examination papers were constructed on a broader basis this year than heretofore. The instructors made the scope of their questions wider and thus gave the students a chance to assert their knowledge or to disclose their ignorace in a more manly and scholarly way. The nature of the papers must of necessity vary greatly with the subject matter and some studies would not allow...
...year examinations has made its appearance on the bulletin boards in University and Sever. There was the usual rush of freshmen yesterday, eager to see "what the list looked like"; and these freshmen were apparently so much fascinated that they made it utterly impossible for a while, for upper classmen to find out how their examinations were assigned. There was the annual amount of grumbling, audible and subdued, among these who found an examination on the first day and another on the last day; and the usual amount of cheerfulness on the part of those who found that they will...
...made of the "good work and conscientious endeavor" of the club in the past, and "its old position of usefulness and popularity," - by which we are led to believe that the writer either is a freshman who has just been elected into the defunt society by unprincipled upper-classmen, or is otherwise ignorant of the history of the organization. For the society always has been the laughing-stock of the college as regards usefulness, activity and popularity...