Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...also books are constantly missing from the shelves and can be found nowhere in the Library, the supposition naturally being that some student has secretly carried off the book to his own room. Books carried off in this manner have been missing for two or three weeks at a time, and then have appeared again on the shelves as mysteriously as they disappeared. This seems like a trifling matter; but when one realizes that unless this temporary thieving is stopped it may cause, aside from the great inconvenience of missing valuable reference books from the shelves during the semi-annuals...
...complaint on the part of the students. When a man has elaborate theses to write, as in Political Economy 3 and History 5, of a hundred pages or so in length, one of two things must happen: either he must neglect his regular work and write them during term time, or he must devote his Christmas recess to the task. Either of these courses seems equally bad, and we cannot believe that the amount of time necessarily employed in looking up a small point in history would not be better employed in the more general work which is sacrificed...
...promoters of the system of Honorable Mention, which was applied for the first time to the class of '80, were undoubtedly very well satisfied with the way in which it worked. On the whole, the system is a good one, and does encourage more systematic work; but there are several points in which last year's trial suggests modification of it. Thus, it seems hardly right that Honorable Mention in a modern language which may have been acquired abroad, should be considered a ground for a degree cum laude. Again, in the Greek courses, it is difficult...
...essays must be deposited with the Secretary of the Finance Club on or before Dec. 1, 1881. The titlepage must, with an assumed name, state of what class the writer is a member. A sealed letter must be sent in at the same time, under cover with the essay, containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name...
...author of the successful essay is invited to read it in public at a time and place to be designated by the Executive Committee of the Finance Club...