Word: extras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition of verse-making, except as an extra in the higher forms. Greek, too, as a compulsory subject is doomed, and all the head masters in England cannot save it. This, we know, is a debatable question, and we should like to argue it out, but here we must be content to dogmatic...
Prof. Shaler will meet his sections in N. H. 4 three times a week, instead of twice as heretofore. The extra lecture will be given on Mondays at twelve o'clock, and will be continued until May. During May, Prof. Shaler will be exceedingly busy, and hopes by this arrangement, to be enabled to get on with one recitation a week after...
Prices: Admission, 50 cents. Reserved seats in the front rows on the east and west sides of the gallery, and in the floor section at the south end of the gymnasium, 75 cents extra. All others, 50 cents extra...
...date contains the following: "A great change affecting the army, is announced, which has unusual importance to members of the university who may contemplate a military career. Hitherto, Latin and Greek have been included among the voluntary subjects of the final examination by which it was possible to obtain extra marks and thereby compensate for deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state. Classics, however, are now abolished...
...Moore will meet any men who wish to do extra work in Fine Arts I every Saturday morning, with the exception of the coming Saturday...