Word: dean
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...undergraduate world. There is a delightful vein of half-concealed, often completely hidden humor running through the work and coming into view only to the observing eye of those whose souls are attuned to the spirit of the composition, and whose memories yet retain the exhilarating tone of the Dean's afternoon receptions. The delightful little essay on Censure Marks becomes almost poetical in its phraseology, and but for a few slight trips in metre and a superfluous line we might be deceived into reading it as a sonnet. The directness and conciseness of the writing cannot be too much...
...with sincere regret that we learn that Professor Gurney has resigned the position of Dean of the College Faculty; and we feel sure that we express the sentiments of all undergraduates when we offer him our thanks for the impartial and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled the duties of his difficult office...
...report of Dean Gurney shows that 164 students were conditioned last year; also that of the 318 candidates for the last Freshman Class, 294 presented French, forty-one per cent of whom failed, and 24 German of whom twenty-one per cent failed; showing that men trusted too much to a general knowledge of French. 7 Freshmen anticipated Latin, 8 Greek, 9 German, and 10 a whole or part of Mathematics, taking in their place electives in Latin, Greek. Mathematics, German, French, Italian, Spanish, History, Music, and Natural History. Voluntary attendance at recitations is most ingeniously and elaborately discussed, every...
...Dean of the Law School shows that in 1872, the first year in which an examination on the studies of the first year was required of candidates for a degree, nineteen passed, while in 1875 almost three times that number were successful. The total amount of the funds of the University, August 31, 1875, was $3,139,217.99 showing a total increase during the year...
JUNIORS who desire to anticipate the prescribed rhetoric of the second term must send blank-books to the Dean's office on or before January 15. The examination will be held in U. E. R. at 11 o'clock on the 22d January...