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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class must be distinctly stamped on his shoes, which are to be of some light kind of leather. The janitor of each building, if he is requested in a pleasant tone of voice, may clean these shoes, but not oftener than once a week, for the sum of twenty-five cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...this way it is hoped that everybody will be satisfied. I forgot to state that the price of the regulation suits is fixed at sixty dollars for the largest, fifty-five for the next, and so on. It has been suggested that a tall man who wishes to economize can do so by wearing the smallest suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

THIRTY-ONE gentlemen have signified their willingness to join a Chess Club. The club will not be formed unless thirty-five members can be obtained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...laude, respectively." Parts at Commencement are to be assigned to those who receive one of the above marks of distinction. Ninety per cent of the maximum mark on the general scale for the whole course takes a summa cum laude; eighty per cent, a magna cum laude; and seventy-five per cent, or Honorable Mention in any study, provided sixty-five per cent has been attained on the general scale for the whole course, or seventy per cent for the last three years, or seventy-five per cent for the last two years, takes a cum laude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW REGULATIONS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend church or prayers are referred to "one absence from prayers" as an unit of censure, five of which are equivalent to one absence from church. Censure marks are, therefore, wholly dispensed with, and "absences" take their place. Seniors and Juniors, since they have voluntary recitations, will not be allowed so many "absences" as Sophomores and Freshmen. The proportion, as soon as it is determined, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW REGULATIONS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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