Word: think
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the freshmen class meeting would take place this evening, but,as was the case last year, the faculty decided that, in order to prevent the consequences of a rush, the meeting should occur in the afternoon. This is probably a sore disappointment to many of the sophomores, who think they have an a priori right to enjoy a little fun with the freshmen on the night of the first classmeeting. With regard to the action of the faculty, it must be said that the tendency for "rushing" such as it exists at other colleges is gaining ground here...
...thoroughly acquainted with all that a skillful physician should know. Well-educated, scientific physicians are needed, and such men Harvard should send out, but three years is too short a time to accomplish this in. Yet most of those who have spent four years in a college think that they have neither time nor money to devote to another four year's course, so they try to do all the work in three years. They do not realize that there is plenty of room for well-educated doctors, but no room for poorly-trained ones Nearly all of Boston...
...mistake the office for a bear garden, nor Wadsworth for an ice-house. Let him not despise the in offensive cigarette and sicken upon the masculine bulldog. Let him not drink too much lemonade, nor think a remorse should be worn conspicuously. Let him not drag about a stick he can't carry for two consecutive minutes. Let him not play the drum at midnight, nor boast of wild feats he never attempted, nor attempt wild feats he can never perform. Little boys should be seen and not heard, and not seen too much either...
...changing the marking system, they have demanded that every man in college shall obtain a yearly average of 60 per cent., instead of 50? And this, in face of the fact that the rigorously-minded instructors have not departed one jot or one tittle from their ancient rigor. I think I may safely say that I voice the opinion of the majority of the students (not that the majority have been dropped), when I urge that, if we must cling to the new marking system, the letter D be made to mean a mark from forty per cent. to fifty...
...think there are two causes that are at the bottom of Cornell's lack of success...