Word: brought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Another change that this year has brought in the examination papers lies in the different method in which they are to be marked. The instructor can no longer, as in former years give a fixed value in per cents to each question, foot up the total and give the mark accordingly. The system of marking by classes will force the instructors to judge the papers as a whole and to establish the gradation of marks by a careful comparison of all the papers with the most perfect one they find...
...Cambridge Railroad tie-up had its interesting features yesterday. A large crowd assembled on the square last night and knocked a driver senseless who brought through a car. Herdics and barges alone could be used yesterday. No cars for a week, they...
...anchor heaves, the other goes back on his toes, bracing his heels together, and then comes forward as the other goes back, thus losing nothing. Sometimes in this way, or by a very quick heave, the other anchor is "caught" in technical parlance, that is, has the strain brought on his bent knees. His only alternative is to let out rope, or come over the cleats...
...occasionally were accompanied by ladies. But in 1851 they were taken by surprise in this way, - Yale had heard that Harvard owned an eight-oared barge, and wishing to vie with her on the water sent a challenge to row on Lake Winnipiseogee. Harvard accepted, the old "Oneida" was brought into requisition, eight men, who had never rowed together but a half-dozen times before, were picked out to represent Harvard. The race took place on August 3. The "Oneida" was victorious both in this and in the next race which occurred at Springfield in 1855. The following year, after...
...proposed all the social interests now existing. It requires no argument to show which of the two will fall. To attempt by the formation of a common relation, which can claim no higher legitimacy than the interest formed by mere residence at our university, to do away with distinctions brought here from life, must be futile. A club house will attract in the degree in which it is attractive. For a time such a club might prove successful, but as the interest in it became no longer such as that taken for a while in everything new under...