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...Senior Class elections on Monday night were extremely well managed, and the Committee are to be congratulated on the success of their arrangements; for there was no hitch in the proceedings, and the meeting ended several hours earlier than any previous one. It is to be regretted that one section of the class did not sustain the Committee in their efforts to have no society candidates. It was perfectly evident that one society voted as an organized body for single candidates nominated as the candidates of that society. The general tone of the meeting, however, was very free from society...
...flees to his real recitation-room in U. 23, and finds his section gone; time, 10.06. Grind on Sleet and the swell Seniors...
...first section will hand in their forensic November 5; the second, November 12; the third, November 19; the fourth, November...
...Public Admonitions," while "Parietal Admonitions" are no longer in the list to enforce discipline. The use of the word "absence" is rather arbitrary, and for that very reason deserves to be remarked. "Absence from a recitation" is taken as the unit of censure by which all failures, enumerated in section 30, to perform duties, are measured. All failures to attend church or prayers are referred to "one absence from prayers" as an unit of censure, five of which are equivalent to one absence from church. Censure marks are, therefore, wholly dispensed with, and "absences" take their place. Seniors and Juniors...
...when complete. Judging from the overtures that have been made to several well-known instructors in gymnastics, the want (real or supposed) of money is likely to delay for the present the true use of this fine building, and make it simply an enlarged and better illustrated section of the present Gymnasium, which is so defective in plan, furnishing, and superintendence. If it may be permitted us to breathe a wish in this matter, it would be that a Professor of Hygiene might be appointed, - a man of courage as well as sound learning, - who should lecture to the students...