Word: extras
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evils of the marking system, the extra work and trouble given the professor, going sometimes so far as to convert the instructor into a mere automatic registering machine, the impossibility of a fair and accurate adjustment of relative rank, and above all the danger of leading students to work for marks rather than for broad scholarship, have been so often and so forcibly demonstrated as to need no more than mention. These evils we avoid. The students in the seminary courses have no further incentives than the love of the study and the natural emulation that arises of working together...
...following extra fees will be charged from the beginning of the next academic year : From students in Chemistry 1 or 2 a fee of $10 each, in Chemistry 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 a fee of $15 each. A fee of $10 will also be charged to any student who takes Prof. Trowbridge's laboratory course in Physics, and of $5 to those who take any laboratory course in Natural History...
...recitation in Chemistry 1 this week will be on "Bismuth, Antimony and Arsenic." As the class have finished the required laboratory work so early, a number of extra experiments will probably be given...
...think that by a very little effort on the part of the managers of base-ball, the project might readily be brought to a successful issue. The advantages of the scheme are obviously commendable, and the objections to its inauguration seem mainly to consist of the fear that this extra nine will not be good enough to give the 'Varsity sharp practice, and that "Harvard indifference" will cause a failure of candidates to appear for this nine. To this latter objection we can only instance the scrub games that have gone on for many years behind the hospital, where many...
There is much complaint of the action of the managers of the Boston ball grounds on Saturday in charging for admission to the grand stand. It has been the custom to admit students to the stand without extra charge...