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Dress must consist of shirt and loose drawers to the knee. No person will be allowed to compete unless properly attired; this rule will be strictly enforced. Contestants will please send their colors...
...intention to enter into a discussion with the writer of that article, as I believe that arguments in college papers, as a rule, carry with them very little conviction in matters of this nature; but I think one of his statements, at least, should not pass unchallenged. In alluding to the influence exerted by the "popular man," he says, "It is Gosling's [the would-be 'popular man'] private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly...
...meeting of the Board of Directors of Memorial Hall, on Wednesday evening, the resignation of Mr. G. W. Williams, one of the Directors from '82, was read and accepted. It was voted to rescind the rule which provides that allowance for temporary absence shall only be given for whole weeks beginning on Thursday morning, and that in future allowance shall be granted for every whole week of absence, on whatever day of the week that absence begins. The Board meets again next Monday evening...
...CLAIM of mine, duly filed in the current month of February for a deduction on account of ten days' absence, was disallowed by the Auditor, on the ground that no complete week as recognized by the Dining Association had been included therein. The rule of the Association on which the Auditor's action was based, seemed manifestly so opposed to common sense, that I petitioned the Directors to be exempted from its provisions. At their meeting on Wednesday the Directors acknowledged the unfairness of the rule by rescinding it. Other petitions for deduction for the same reason as mine came...
...encourage athletics here. Now, as the contestants in many of the events of the in-door meeting practise together daily, it is well known beforehand who is likely to win; and often the man whose chances are best is left to enter the contest alone. Hence, under the present rule, a man is actually discouraged from trying to excel, knowing that if he acquires a decided superiority over others, no one will enter against him, and he will lose all chances...