Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Twice only during the course has a man to endure an examination, the "little-go" and the "great-go," as they are called. At Oxford there is as well a final examination, just before the students take their degrees (or do not take them). They are conducted by public examiners and are distinct from the colleges. The system of having only two examinations during the course is superior, in some respects, to the custom in vogue here of holding them every few weeks, but it has many obvious disadvantages...
...students and committees from the faculty, and the success attending these consultations has doubtless led to the desire for combined action on all questions of interest to the students. With the present steady advance in the liberal spirit of Harvard it remains only a question of time when this final action will be taken. - [Boston Journal...
...less partisan comment on the proceedings than in any of the college papers. Indeed, it has been principally the outside press which, with perverted enterprise, has perpetually dragged the matter into publicity, both in and out of season. The public, of course, has a decided interest in learning the final outcome of the discussion, but they have no claim to learn more than this. The impertinent comments on the matter that have appeared from time to time in the daily press have derived a manifest absurdity from their impertinence. It is a matter of congratulation that in the future opportunities...
...Winslow and Halbert. The secret ballot on the question was in the affirmative. The ballot on the merits of the debate was in favor of the negative. The debate was then thrown open to the house, and a very sharp discussion showed the manifest interest of all present. The final vote was in favor of the affirmative. It was voted to have another debate in two weeks from Monday, and that the rooms shall be kept open every Monday evening, beginning next week...
...large cannon which the students had drawn from West Lebanon, a distance of four miles, during the night, was standing near Reed Hall. On Sunday evening it was taken home by the authorities, but before morning found its way here again and on to the chapel stage. What the final disposition of this flying artillery will be is unknown...