Word: final
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will devote thirteen hours to the "Frogs" of Aristophanes. The first fifteen minutes of the recitation will be devoted to prepared translations by members of the section, after which the instructor will comment on the play. The system of written recitations, to be substituted for parts of the final examination paper, will also be continued. When the section takes up the Greek Lyrics the members of the section will be expected to read short lines of the authors under consideration...
Each examination begins at 10 A. M. Recitations in elective courses and in rhetoric will be suspended from Jan. 25 to Feb. 10, both days included. By the regulations, mid-year and final examinations are never to be extended beyond three hours...
...should be settled at once. The best argument that can be urged in favor of the change is past experience. In 1881 although weather permitted the race to be rowed on the day set, yet all the crew men, and especially seniors, were hurried in their preparations for the final examinations. Last year, when a delay of six days was caused by bad weather, the race was brought so close on to the examinations that the seniors were compelled to refuse to row if the race was postponed another day. This year, when the very existence of a senior crew...
...commemorative discourse by the Rev. Wm. Orne White followed. He spoke of Dr. Walker's birth in Burlington, Mass., of his boyhood and of his brave struggles to obtain an education, embarrassed as he was by poverty and extraordinary discouragements; of his joy at finally gaining admission to Harvard College, and of his resolve to make the utmost of his opportunities; his diligent application to his studies during the course, and his final graduation with high honors; his acceptance of the position of assistant professor at Phillips Exeter Academy, and next that of pastor of the Harvard Church. His connection...
...attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin, is the least the Boat Club should do. Rivalry between the classes is sure, even then, to secure from the oarsmen the utmost limit of devotion that may safely be accorded to any of our home athletics. The Senior class, since Commencement is near, and their work cannot...