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...change the time of a vacation because it interfered with the religious observances of any particular sect would be contrary to its policy. Even if five sixths of the men in college were Episcopalians, and were dissatisfied with the present time of the vacation, they would have no right, as Episcopalians, to demand a change. If they wish to have the vacations arranged to conform to the festivals and fasts of their church, I am afraid they will have to go elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...with pleasure that we print this week a letter from Mr. William Cook in relation to his method of marking examination-books. Perhaps, on the whole, he is right in refusing to contribute an account of it to the columns of a college paper. We certainly think it very likely that if he did so his system would be attacked, as he himself suggests, and this would of course put him in rather an awkward position. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Cook's method of procedure, - and we can say from his own account of it that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, - are not these the great qualities with which dulness takes the lead in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...relations how Davidson had managed to live so long. McClure was a hard student; and for a while all went well. But on an unlucky day he stumbled over a chair in a recitation-room, and, where any common man would merely have barked his shin, McClure broke his right arm and two fingers of his left hand. Recitations were postponed. Hardly had McClure recovered, when he was seized with an attack of typhoid fever, and recitations were again postponed. The Faculty thought that things were looking pretty serious; but hoped that the fever would end the list of catastrophies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SAD TALE OF THE CLASS OF 19-. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...certainly small enough, but some dissatisfaction has been expressed with the fact of charging any fee at all. We do not know the reasons for making this charge, nor who is responsible for making it, but it seems to us that a student has the right of receiving instruction from a regular instructor of the College without paying extra for it. We hope that the present fee will not be continued another year, nor serve as a precedent in the future for exacting a fee for instruction in any other department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/24/1879 | See Source »