Word: students
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...agreements not signed in red ink will be considered. If red ink is not procurable, the student must give up any idea of remaining at college...
...list of college rooms will be furnished to all who can pass a 3-hour written examination on Conic Sections. Any student failing in this will not be allowed to receive a list...
...room having an asterisk prefixed can be drawn. An asterisk signifies a room with two bedrooms attached; and such are exclusively for the use of Professors and their families. Any student having an asterisked room on his list will receive 435 censure-marks...
...plan proposed will give to a student the credit due him for proficiency in any special study, and at the same time retain all the advantages heretofore derived from an average. It is a long step forward in the direction of doing greater justice to all, and is a necessary corollary to the elective system, and therefore it is earnestly to be hoped that it will be adopted...
Ranking upon an average is particularly liable to be unjust in a mixed system, partly prescribed and partly elective. Greek may be studied only because it is required for the entrance examination and during the Freshman year. The mark of the student who is indifferent to this study drags down his average, and as he intends to drop Greek as soon as possible, a greater proficiency would be of no advantage, so soon is the whole to be neglected and forgotten...