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Secondly, let the proctors keep still, if they can, and let them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS. | 1/17/1883 | See Source »

...gymnasium is kept locked and if there is any way of getting into it. The room in question has been in the past frequented by numbers of small boys who were making a sort of club-room of it. To prevent this it was found necessary to keep it locked. Any one, however, who wishes to be admitted to it can obtain a key by applying at the office of the gymnasium or to any of the attendants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1883 | See Source »

...editor of a Dublin newspaper has framed and hung in his office a unique memorial of a reporter's forethought. It is a telegram which he received a few weeks ago, and it reads: "Please keep column open for dastardly outrage to be committed at 11 o'clock tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1883 | See Source »

...does n't the College keep Washington's Birthday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME GRUMBLING. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...does n't the College keep Decoration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME GRUMBLING. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »