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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fellow-students. It seems that the men who go to hour examinations and, finding the papers not to their taste, leave early, have at last been outwitted. For if a man cuts an hour examination he receives the penalty for being absent at an examination; whereas if he is present it is called a recitation, and therefore, if he leaves early, he is liable to be marked absent. So that if a man does not go to an hour examination they call it one thing, and if he does go they call it another, thus getting the dead-wood...
...College Fund. It seems to us, however, that a man who has held a scholarship is not likely to be so well off, the moment he leaves college, that he should be asked to pay back part of what he has received. He should certainly feel, under the present system, that he is bound to pay off the obligation, some time or other, if he is ever in prosperous circumstances; but it is too much to ask him to begin to do so at once. Let every one who is able contribute to the Class Fund, and everybody who wants...
...very large aggregate premium for insurance. That there is a chronic want of money for improvements, and even for necessary expenses, is not the fault of those who manage the finances of the College, but because too little has been so devised that it can be employed for present needs. If there were funds available, it would perhaps be advisable for the College to insure itself, by yearly putting aside a certain amount - say one half of what the insurance would be - as a sinking-fund, to provide against the losses by fire which must inevitably occur from time...
...needs we have long felt to be unsupplied. It has been said that the beams, from which it was supposed the apparatus was to be hung, are too high. The effect of the interior would have been marred by placing the beams any lower, while by the present method a great advantage is gained. An iron framework is fastened to the timbers, on which are running beams and eyes that can be placed at any desired point...