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...lack of information as to what lines-of goods may be ordered through the society. It should be borne in mind that not everything can be bought at reduced rates by the society, but that reasonable efforts will be made to obtain many things not in the following list which will be continued in the next bulletins. Members are requested to make note of the list and to learn, from actual experiment, in what ways the society can serve them. Besides books, stationery, and coal and wood, members can order: All the leading American and foreign periodicals; art photographs, from...
...severest punishment which could be inflicted, next to expulsion, was the much dreaded degradation. This, we learn, "consisted in placing a student on the list, in consequence of some offence, below the level to which his father's condition would assign him; and thus declared that he had disgraced his family...
...students were written in order of precedence in a large German text, and placed in a conspicuous part of the college buttery (a sort of supplement to the commons) with the names of the other three classes. If a man was expelled, his name was taken off the list; if degraded, his name was put below that of a classmate who held a lower place in the social scale...
Besides the honor attached to a good place in the class, there were some substantial advantages connected with it. The men who stood highest on the list received the best rooms in college and had the right to help themselves first at table in Commons, which was considered a great and probably substantial privilege...
...seats except those reserved for graduates were filled, and at the hour for commencing many were compelled to stand, the number being fully 1300. The officers had the arrangements well in hand, and at 2.30 the meeting was opened Several additions had been made to the list of entries which reduced the number of expected walkovers. The officers of the day were: Referee, Dr. Dudley A. Sargent; judges, Prof. Wm. E. Byerly '71, and Mr. E. W. Atkinson, '81; referee of sparring, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly; judges of sparring, Mr. Clifford Brigham and Mr. Robert Bacon, '80; judge...