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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year. Most of them are at Oxford awarded for proficiency in the same studies as are required at the examinations in the various schools of the university. There is hence difficulty in England in causing students to follow any lecture course or branches of liberal culture which do not count towards their examinations in the schools, or towards a fellowship. Among the practical university problems of the day are: (1) the reduction of expenses for students. The necessary cost at an English university is from $600 to $1,000 a year. (2) The creation of a more complete system...
...association in college at the time of the events. The college feeling in regard to sparring is higher than that outside; what is desired is scientific sparring; we do not want a slugging match or a glove fight as they have at Yale. As in fencing a touch counts, so in sparring science ought to count, and one heavy blow should not count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year to year and the standard keeps getting lower...
...faculty's decision in regard to Professor Ko's pupil from '83, is as follows: His six hours a week in Chinese for the past half year will count as a three-hour elective for the year, and the omitted three hours may be made up by him either this year or next year...
...April examination in Freshman Latin this year will be called a two-hour examination, and will not be simply the usual "pass" examination. The instructors announce that the marks obtained will count in the annual scale, - not so much, however, as the Christmas or final marks. This change has been determined upon in consequence of a growing dissatisfaction with the present system of freshman spring examinations among both students and instructors. If an examination be held at all, and if the marking system must be kept in use, it would seem no more than just that credit be allowed...
...text-book, Mixer's "Modern French Poetry," will be used in French 5 on Wednesdays, in place of Cherbutiez's "Count Costia," concluded next time...