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One of the rules governing the instructors of the university is that no examination shall extend beyond three hours. The corporation wisely foresaw that, if no such restriction were enacted, students would be constantly treated with the utmost inconsideration by some professors whose sole aim in examinations is not to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

The fact is that the scholar does not always appear well in politics. Take the government of our schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

The past few years have added largely to the number of cigarette smokers, and the many brands placed before the buyer have added a variety to the taste of the lovers of a short smoke, but of late two popular kinds have made their appearance, which have taken the smoker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1882 | See Source »

The Pierian Sodality gave a most enjoyable open air concert on the steps of Matthews last evening before an audience of about five or six hundred persons. The selections were finely rendered, and the Pierian ought to feel well satisfied with the year's work. The programme was a follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIERIAN CONCERT. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »

While we have serious doubts as to New York becoming the centre of the intellectual gravity of America, we think that the care and earnestness shown by Columbia College in the advancement of one of the most useful and pleasant branches of modern study are to be heartily commended. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES. | 6/6/1882 | See Source »