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...young freshwomen of Vassar are now required to submit to a process called "squelching," which, judging from the vague accounts at hand, appears to be in the nature of an extra course in rhetoric. They are represented as very wroth over the infliction, and have even gone so far as to suggest to the faculty that hazing be substituted as more humane. - [Boston Journal...
...suggestion of Prof. Dunbar a new course in French was established at the beginning of the present college year, designed principally to be taken as an extra by men who could not possibly find room for a more extended French course, but who were not content with the knowledge of the language they had acquired before admission to college. This course is French V., being substituted for the one of the same name conducted last year by Mr. Bendelari. It requires no work outside of the classroom from those who take it, and the work done is highly interesting...
...view of these facts, the board of managers have seen fit to offer him extra inducements to retain the position. Every member will endorse them in this action, and we feel sure that we voice the general sentiment of the college when we urge upon the superintendent to consider carefully the needs of the society before deciding to give up his present office...
...desk and railing. These improvements are not to exceed three hundred dollars. Messrs. Hubbard and Cushing were appointed a committee of supervision. After a pretty thorough and general discussion of the coffee question, the whole matter was left as at present, for another trial. The steward reported that the extra cost of coffee for dinner was about seven cents per week for each...
...good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor, but the satisfaction felt by the students will amply repay the extra trouble. This is already done by some instructors, but the practice is not so universal as it should be. We hope that instructors will feel that the extra work will be appreciated by their students...