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...have spoken aught in jest, still let it be remembered that the light words from the cap and bells sometimes cover serious truths...
...Serious insubordination was punished by flogging "in the hall, openly," a dastardly custom that was not abolished until 1755, when corporal punishment was suspended by the corporation and never revived. The minor offences were punished by fines varying in amount with the enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready...
...Regulation, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Secretary that his failure to present it at the appointed time was caused by serious illness or other unavoidable hindrance. Overdue themes, countersigned by the Secretary, may be left at 18 Grays...
...more than an average depth of six inches of water would be needed to cover the whole available surface. This water would be furnished by the city at a low price - two cents per hundred gallons - so that the cost of flooding would be small. The apparently serious objection has been made that if such a scheme as that proposed should be adopted, the open air practice of the Mott Haven team, always begun of necessity much later here than at other colleges, would be thereby delayed for a much longer time. But the ground is of a very porous...
...present concerns of the college is naturally to secure good teaching for those who may desire to take entrance examinations in science instead of in one of the classics. It is well, therefore, to note President Eliot's attitude on this question. He says, "A serious difficulty in the way of getting science well taught in secondary schools has been the lack of teachers who knew anything of inductive reasoning and experimental methods." One reason of this is that "good school methods of teaching the sciences have not yet been elaborated and demonstrated, and it is the first duty...