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...admit the advantages of the system. It is easier to throw the dice for per cents than to estimate the true value of a year's work. It saves trouble to read through a book and affix to it a cabalistic sign. On the other hand, it requires care and judgment to note accurately the worth of daily work. But an instructor's estimate of men, not marks, would be the fairer method. Two examinations - one upon entrance, one for a degree - would obviate the difficulties of a continuous struggle for marks; if this change be too radical, let rank...
...play at cards or dice, he shall be fined, not exceeding one dollar for the first, and two dollars for the second offence...
...following penalties were also imposed on conviction of drunkenness, swearing, revelling, playing at cards or dice...