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What a never-ending source of complaint is the Dining Association. First comes the high price of board; then as soon as the college press has canvassed that matter thoroughly, it is time for the report of last month to appear, and many are the anathemas hurled at the much-enduring board of directors...
...causes leading up to this, date back as far as July, 1881, when the Academica published an article entitled "The Rector's Case," setting forth nineteen causes of complaint against Thomas Vickers, any one of which, if established, was sufficient to show his unfitness for the rectorship. In alarm Vickers rushed into contemporaneous print, and accused students, alumni, directors, members of the faculty, and citizens, of conspiring to break down his reputation and destroy the university. Receiving an intimation that the beseigers were about to lay certain petitions before the directorate, asking for an investigation into the consul's management...
...Vickers. In a secret session of the faculty, without affording the editors the opportunity of a full and impartial defence, Vickers succeeded in having them suspended. The editors at once disclaimed any intention to slight the faculty, behind whom Vickers was shielding himself, and demanded a hearing of their complaint by the board of directors...
...therefore did not heat the building. During the mid-year examinations the college will do everything possible to heat the building. We are glad to see that the authorities are not blind to the comfort of students, as many are apt to think. There certainly was ground for complaint in the fact that a large number of men were compelled to sit during a cold day in a room which had not been heated for several days, and it is very fortunate that an explanation of the cause has been given...
...unreasonableness; the matter sought to be stricken out, and which, for the purpose of the motion to strike out, must be taken as true, does not render the rule in question invalid, nor have any legal effect upon its validity, nor any legal effect upon the validity of the complaint, and therefore ought to be stricken...