Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Preparation for Journalism. He holds that the work on the college papers is of slight worth in fitting for a literary life, except that a college editor often forms a taste for writing. Although Mr. Morse has more experience than any of us, yet his assertions are certainly debatable. He further laments the weakness of our English Department. His criticism, however, is based upon the testimony of graduates of two years and over. Plainly he knows nothing of the reforms wrought among us during the past twelve months. E. G. Ireland, '68, advocates raising the standard of our preparatory...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I should like to call attention to an apparent defect in the system of ranking by classes which is now being tried by many of our instructors. The classes cannot, of course, merge gradually into one another, but must be separated by certain fixed limits. These limits must be definite per cents...
Once more the meanness of a certain student in this university has been brought to notice in a most disagreeable manner. The eighth volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica containing the article on Ethics, was missing from the library for two or three days. Yesterday morning when the janitor opened the building, he found the book on the steps. The sneak who had taken it was not contented with merely preventing others from using it, but he went to the trouble of breaking the covers and tearing the binding...
...recent examination, a certain obscure member of the college answered the question: "What are the four elements?" "Air, wind and water...
...substitution of the "group system," which has been adopted at Bryn Mawr College. Almost every young man will find that one of these seven avenues to a Bachelor's degree will prevent him from wasting time, and he has more than sufficient choice of studies to make it certain that he is not asked to devote himself to an uncongenial task to a greater extent than is good for him. These seven courses go under the following names : classical, mathematical-physical, chemical-biological, physical-chemical. Latin-mathematical, historical-political, and modern language. - Johns Hopkins letter in Evening Post...