Word: exceptionality
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Quarrels among gentlemen are certainly unfortunate, but unless the correspondent can show how they can be avoided, except by abject submission to the terms of our antagonist, I do not see what is to be done. The writer relieves our minds by informing us "that the majority of graduates, and he believes, undergraduates, desire that the race shall be rowed squarely and fairly." I hope that it is not the Boat Club or the graduate committee that he suspects of any desire to row it in any other way. He wishes "that the arrangements should be settled in private...
...students. An instructor said two weeks ago that this case had occurred at a very unfortunate time on that account. It was necessary, it seemed, that somebody should be made an example of, and Mr. S. became the scapegoat. He has been suspended. The faculty refused to consider anything except that one theme reproduced the other in part. Mr. S.'s explanation counted for nothing...
...morning prayers at Appleton Chapel by application to the registrar. The morning service will be fifteen minutes, the afternoon twenty-five. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons there will be brief addresses. The Lenten services in the society room, 17 Gray's, will be daily at 5.45 - a brief service except on Wednesdays and Saturdays. On Wednesdays services during Lent will be at 7.30 instead of at 7 o'clock, as heretofore. All members of the university are cordially invited to these services...
...observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists, we believe, an institution...
...fire from a cigarette, and after smouldering for an hour or more the flame broke out. The smouldering had not been noticed, and at the time when it was discovered no one was in the room. The chair was thrown out the window, so that no further damage resulted except the burning of a small part of the carpet. The smoke from the burning chair, after it was thrown out behind the building, drew a crowd, who supposed that Holyoke was on fire...