Word: monitor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...petty abuses of college life none gives greater evidence of cowardice and ill-breeding than the habit of leaving the class room as soon as the monitor has taken the attendance. Yet no abuse has been or is more prevalent than this. We take the matter up now, because we believe that the initiative in the reform of an evil for which the students alone are to blame, should be taken by the students...
...fourth number of the Advocate will appear today. There is not a bad contribution in the paper; there are four mediocre ones and one good one. The mediocre ones are entitled "Judge Relf," "John Blake, Monitor," "The Gentlemen," and "By Reason of a Grimace." "Judge Relf" is disappointing in that that the writer starts out well and then fails to make the best of his materials. The end seems careless and hurried. The story however is good in the beginning, the descriptions are by no means bad and the thing is getting interesting when all at once it weakens...
...John Blake, Monitor" is, to our minds, a better piece on the whole. The exposition of the characters of Blake and Detrick is very good and the interest is well sustained...