Word: stated
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...decision seem to be largely based upon the fact that a similar committee, six years ago, decided that ex-President Hill of Portland was not eligible to the Board. In the first place, the cases are not parallel. Dr. Hill forfeited his seat by removing from the State. It might well be a question, in such a case, whether an Overseer could hold his seat without being re-elected as a citizen of the State to which he had removed. But that is no reason why a non-resident candidate chosen by electors from different States should not be eligible...
...recitations during the year; and this view of the case does not, at first sight, seem unreasonable. But it is extremely doubtful if shortening the period does prevent cramming. On the contrary, it forces an enormous amount of work into a few days, and leaves the student in a state of mental collapse that effectually prevents any work for some time. Cramming, in the case of a majority of students, is not a hurried effort to get a superficial knowledge of the half-year's work in a day or two, but merely a review of work which has been...
This was recognized at once as a gross plagiarism upon a dainty poem of the Advocate. Mr. H. was visited with scorn, and replied by throwing about the spoons. At this critical state of affairs Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n emerged from under the table, and delivered the following
...think that all of these causes may have some share in determining the present state of things; but it seems to me that much mutual good might be accomplished if there were a change in this matter. A student who sees that a professor takes no interest in him naturally comes to regard the professor as an evil that must be endured at recitations, and may then be shunned. It is not for him to take the initiative, and he makes no advances...
...complaints that have been so often made for several years past. The thousand men who, during five months of the year, are put to such inconvenience by slush and mud in the Yard should surely be willing to subscribe a sum sufficient to provide a remedy for this state of things. The Crimson heads the list with a subscription of twenty-five dollars...