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...students, of course. Come in, and perhaps you will understand our system better...
...Freshman replied, "He is officially known as the Borsair, a term whose derivation the Philological Society have not yet determined. Some twenty years ago he headed an insurrection of Janitors, or Janissaries, - there is an historical doubt. They were temporarily successful; but they enacted such an oppressive system of legislation that a counter-revolution was started, and on its success the Janissaries were banished and the Borsair imprisoned for life...
...added to that which the student already has? Why should not all men who are interested in some special study be allowed to make use of the knowledge they possess in these studies, for the writing of Theses, as the honor men already do? In fact, under the present system of Forensics a student must do double work. He must first study his subject (in nine cases out of ten one which is entirely new to him) and then write his Forensic. If the substitution of Theses were to be generally allowed, one half of this work would be avoided...
...proof were necessary - of the hold which the Class Races have taken on the College. Contrast this state of affairs with that which many of us, now undergraduates, can recall, and the marked advance in our general rowing will be easily appreciable. Four years ago, before the old club system had reached its end, the crews of the club-houses rowed at spasmodic intervals, bound together by no ties of class or association, but merely by the tie of locality. The oarsmanship displayed in the races was of the crudest form; and the contests failed to call out more than...
...first plan, which was based upon several existing French systems, provided annuities by means of compulsory annual reserves from salaries, supplemented by equal annual appropriations from the treasury of the University, and accumulated for terms of years, which would ordinarily have been long; the second was based upon the English government system, and simply provided a retiring allowance, varying, according to circumstances, from one-third to two-thirds of the recipient's last annual salary in full activity. The first plan commended itself to a large majority of the instructors; but was opposed, for various reasons, by an influential minority...