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- In the place of horse-shoes, notices like the following appear above the dormitory doors: "No admittance from 2 to 6; study hours. Do not try to come in, for you can't."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

The advantages that would attend its introduction are so many that the enumeration of a few will suggest hundreds of others, for there is no limit to the usefulness of the new invention. There would be no more weary hours spent in the ill-ventilated recitation-rooms, which your papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OPEN LETTER. | 3/23/1877 | See Source »

Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TRUE UNIVERSITY. | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

So much is made to depend upon the Annual and Semiannual examinations that instructors ought to require as little purely mechanical work in the examination-room as possible. The case is aggravated when an instructor, to all appearances simply from neglect, makes men use up unprofitably a large part of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

IT is stated on good authority that the men who were seen running on Main Street last Tuesday afternoon, between the hours of 4.30 and 6, were not escaped convicts.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »