Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Johns Hopkins University commencement exercises last week completed the seventh year of the institution. These exercises differ from those of Harvard, Yale or any other of our colleges. The ten preceding days are devoted to the examinations. These final examinations are conducted by gentlemen not connected with the university and not acquainted with the students. This is a severe test, as all can see. The closing or graduating ceremonies are very simple. Visitors are admitted by ticket. Punctually at the hour, the procession - president, trustees, faculty, fellows, candidates for degrees and students - enter the hall, the president, trustees and fellows...
...various ceremonies which give indication of the near departure of a graduating class possess deeper significance than this one. The visit to the observatory may be regarded as the very crowning of the four-years' monument of study erected by every student of the college-as the final "finishing off," to use the phrase of the young ladies' seminary, of his college life. If the origin of the custom were investigated we have no doubt it would be found to have arisen at the time when a knowledge of astronomy was considered necessary for every educated gentleman, and when...
...giving them practically the same examinations as the freshmen entering the college are compelled to pass. The lady students can study at any school or at their houses if they desire, and will be allowed to choose their own course of study. The young ladies who pass the final examination at the close of five years' study will be given a certificate of the college...
...Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made a fool of herself, and that is all there is to it. All the camels that she has put down without a grimace have made her struggles and final revulsion from even as considerable a gnat as Governor Butler absolutely ridiculous...
...final sets of the Longwood tournament, yesterday, Clark finished the fourth set with Durgin, wining with the score of 6-4. The entire score between Clark and Durgin...