Word: count
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does seem as if an hour examination thrust upon the already overburdened students at this season of the year ought not to pass by without incurring a protest. Hour examinations at best are very unsatisfactory performances for they require almost as much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count for almost nothing after all. But an hour examination given within two weeks of the regular examination is an injustice, requiring as it does a devotion to one course equal to that which ought to be given to two. We pray that, for the sake of equity, the hour examinations...
...remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest, may not count in their number the smiling member from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that no mismanagement...
...MORRISON.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. Meeting at Watertown Friday afternoon. The following new series of matches, - to run three weeks, two best scores to count, - will be opened...
...tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath, and he may count himself happy an he is not scalded alive like a miserable shellfish. Dear Masters, why should these things...
...special feature in '88 was a collection of benefactors of the college, each dressed in characteristic costume: some of these were Sam Adams, Count Rumford, Boylston, Gore, Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Flint, Josiah Quincy, and the Indian freshman with the unpronounceable name...