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...submitted to the classes in order that it may receive the ratification of each, and that the students personally may pledge themselves to take an active interest in the work. This plan of procedure cannot be too highly commended, as the name of the university will be placed at stake that the celebration shall be worthy of the occasion. As the university next month will be a centre of interest throughout the country, every success will be more highly appreciated, and any possible failure will only be brought into greater prominence. It is not only a duty, it should...
Nearly all college students are accustomed to celebrate in some way their joy at the completion of their apprenticeship to mathematics. Some of them when they have finished the Trigonometry bury it with more or less solemn rites; others burn it at the stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies...
...abolishing that servile committee of surveillance, the proctors, and while, moreover, this reform has already been tried with success in some of the higher courses, perhaps a too hasty change would be inadvisable. And yet each student ought to remember that in cheating he not only places at stake his own reputation, but also that of Harvard...
...election will be effected. All the men entitled to vote should remember that the election is for the interests of the college as a whole; that no partisan or class spirit should prevail, but that clique interests should give way to a unanimity characteristic of the general interest at stake...
...thought occasionally to replenish our pockets by innocent bets, and thus to obviate any temporary disadvantages arising from lack of funds. One of the glittering journals of New York has investigated the accounts of the average Harvard student, and we are pleased, for our vanity of course, is at stake, to see that the figures run up among the garrets in which the article was evidently written. If the article "takes," we trust that next season, or even next week in the distant and truthful west, we may see a cipher or two more added to the sum. With what...