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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English department is severely criticised - Prof. Child for his peculiar marking system, "so severe, and so greatly in contrast with that of other instructors that his students are at once placed at a great disadvantage in the struggle for rank, upon which depend college honors, scholarships and other important matters;" and the corporation in general for the inadequacy of its provisions for the teaching of English composition and rhetoric. The article is interesting reading...
Subjects of the third Senior Forensic, due March 1 : 1. Does the excellence of the artist depend upon the excellence of the man? 2. Comment upon the following sentence : "Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus." Cicero, pro Cluentio Section 53.) 3. What are the grounds for supposing that the interior of the earth is in a liquid state? 4. Jefferson as a statesman. 5. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...
...amateur and student of astronomy we must depend largely for the success of the plan here proposed. Many such persons spend evening after evening at their telescopes without obtaining results of any permanent value. Either no publication is made and the results are therefore valueless, or time is spent on objects that can be much more usefully examined with a larger instrument. Most commonly the observer has no special plan and spends many hours without result, while the same time might have been employed with equal pleasure to himself and results of great value collected. Those who have not tried...
...would be as follows: "First, the elevation of the tone of college journalism, not only by the mental friction among the magazines and papers enlisted in the association from the first, but by the stimulus to all others implied in the fact that subsequent admission to its ranks will depend only upon literary merit. Upon this latter point, to our thinking, the success or failure of the whole thing depends. Admission must never be allowed to degenerate into a matter of favoritism between individuals or colleges. Secondly, the promotion of good fellowship and an amiable emulation between the different colleges...
...whole, every indication, speaking at a very early date, to be sure, points to a close and exciting race next spring. The seniors and juniors have an advantage in their experience, while the sophomores will depend upon their superiority in weight and what improvement in form hard work will make between the present time...