Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much change from last year, save in the larger space given to freshmen and special students. The number of students entering from other colleges is gratifyingly large. A student from Harpoot, Armenia, and a bachelor of laws from Cambridge University, England, appears among the specials. The summary shows, in exact numbers, 203 seniors, 209 juniors, 207 sophomores, 263 freshmen and 46 specials, a total of 928 in the college proper. In the list of courses a closer and more compact arrangement and smaller type makes a pleasing change. Semetic languages and Sanskrit and Zend loom up in a very formidable...
...students of Michigan University intend during the coming commencement week to produce a play entirely in French. The costumes, scenery, music, &c., will be in exact conformity to customs of the time of Racine, whose only comedy, "Les Plaideurs," has been chosen for the representation. The cast of characters will consist of both gentlemen and lady students who have been carefully prepared for the occasion by Prof. De Pont of the university. The play will be mounted in fine style in the Ann Arbor Opera House on June 26. This is the first evening in commencement, and many alumni...
...announced in the catalogue of the university that students are allowed to anticipate the prescribed Rhetoric of the sophomore year by taking an examination in that course at the beginning of the year. The regulation is a commendable one, and it was probably intended by a body as exact as the Harvard faculty that it should be taken advantage of. Every one recognizes that Rhetoric is not a very entertaining study, and there is considerable doubt whether, as it is at present taught, it is of sufficient value to justify a man devoting to it the required time...
...gradually being cleared for Sarah Bernhardt's return to the Comedie Francaise. The nomad star has been given to understand that if she pleases to come back, the 100,000 francs damages to which she has been condemned will not be exacted; whereas, if she plays at the Vaudeville in the autumn, as she has arranged with Sardou, the Comedie will exact the payment of that sum. In any case, Sarah's return to Paris will be a great event. It will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice...
...honors and scholarships were awarded with exact regard to the proportionate merits of a man's work under different instructors, there would be little cause for complaint. But the fact is that all awards are made by an absolute standard of the mere marks obtained, which often enough misrepresent the real comparative worth of different men's work under the present regime...