Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...authority to govern in the Hall has been deputed to them, they feel bound to exercise it on the student, rather than take what would appear to rational beings to be the most natural course, namely, to remove the casus belli by prohibiting visitors from Memorial Hall during meal-time...
...idea of visitors coming to the Hall at meal-time is no less absurd than it would be for people to flock to one of our large hotels to see the guests eat. However, if they must come to the Hall, they ought to make no distinction between it and a hotel, and they ought to conform to the same rules of politeness which would govern them in such a place...
...prominent standing in the University" - no matter if they are unfortunate enough to be extremely susceptible to cold - should, by being guilty of this impoliteness, lay themselves open to the reproof which they justly deserve. We should imagine that such gentlemen would have the sense to choose a time more fitting than that during the hours of meals to pay their visits to Memorial Hall...
...hear that, in future, Commencement is to be much more comprehensive. Up to this time, the Divinity School has been the only department which has had a separate Commencement, for the other schools receive their degrees at the same time with the Academic students. The Divinity School Commencement is, however, to be discontinued, and orations have been assigned to those students who have obtained the requisite mark. The other schools which have neither had a Commencement of their own nor have been represented in the Academic Commencement will hereafter take part in the exercises. There will also be addresses delivered...
...hear some dismally virtuous youth remark, "Unless we now improve our time, success in life will never be ours...