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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work. The amount of work required in the preparation of a thesis is supposed to be fully equal to that required in writing the forensics. The fact that the mark given in a special course on a thesis differs from that given in the English department can be explained by the fact that although in a forensic matter is regarded of prime impostance, still form is also to be taken into consideration, and more than this original research can hardly be expected in a forensic. In the case of honor theses, this is not true. Although...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/13/1883 | See Source »

...Harvard, the number of men who have taken exactly similar courses throughout their college career is limited, and as a result there is no common bond of sympathy existing in the studies pursued. This fact will do much to explain why the college papers devote so much space to athletics, while other topics seem to be neglected. Athletics furnish the only common ground of interest to the majority of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD MAGAZINE. | 3/20/1883 | See Source »

...dynamite plot is still the all-absorbing topic in London. No one pretends to explain the motive or purpose of the act. Thus far no arrests have been made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/17/1883 | See Source »

...knowledge of the management of the ladders, since they are always resident at the college, while the students are changing, and they would then be competent to oversee the placing of the ladders in time of fire. If the superintendent should appoint an hour in which he would explain the workings of the ladders, the students would certainly co-operate with him as he desires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1883 | See Source »

...study of the vital topics of the day. Why heavy expense should be incurred in the encouragement of the study by a handful of men of Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic and the Zend, when the college is unable to support more than one professor in political science, is hard to explain, especially as the interest shown in political economy by the students is greater than that in any other one department. - [Advertiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/25/1883 | See Source »

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