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...discussion of the cribbing question by the Conference Committee is interpreted by the Acta Columbiana in a manner that does gross injustice to the committee. Our contemporary says: "The Conference Committee at that college, in view of the cheating indulged in at the semi-annual examinations this year, has submitted a report to the faculty recommending that the penalty for cribbing be expulsion from the college instead of suspension." What the Conference Committee has done is this. Its members have recommended that the regulation regarding cribbing in the published rules, which prescribes suspension or other penalty judged proper...
...recent gift of Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, to Wellesley College may well be a source of gratification to all interested in the higher education of women. By the terms of this gift the heads of the department at Wellesley are to have "Sabbatical years," after the manner of Harvard professors. Says the Cambridge Tribune: "It seems most fitting that the means for all this should have come from a citizen of Cambridge, the success of whose great university is owing in no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts and direct benefactions of women from the time...
...coffin passed around for the friends to take a last look at the contents, - simply a foot-ball with painted frill fastened in the head of the coffin; while the spade-bearers plied their spades industriously in digging the grave. The elegist then - in the most excessively mock-sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations which might have been heard for a mile, read an address and a poem." The address was a very amusing eulogy on the character and merits of the dearly beloved and highly respected game. After the address the gifted speaker read...
...particular direction. Lectures are the great means by which we may gather the ideas of different men, learn of the vocations and grow wise from their experience; it is also the means by which we may become acquainted with the great men of our day and learn of their manner of thinking. This system of having public lectures is daily growing more and more popular; especially is this the case at Harvard. The mere announcement that a certain well known man will speak on a particular evening is sufficient to attract the attendance of a large body of students. This...
...thesis of the junior forensic work will be due on Tuesday, March 23, 1886. - Subjects for junior and senior theses are to be chosen in the same manner as was announced for the choice of the subjects for the first forensic...