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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty has appointed the following members of the second-year class in the Law School, being those who passed the best examination in June last in the studies of the first year, to write parts for the next Commencement, from which the Faculty will select the part to be delivered; Barrows, Bradley, Croswell, Cushing, Du Bois, Green, Howland, Morawetz, O'Callaghan, Ritchie, and Wigglesworth...
...allowed those who intended to go elsewhere to deviate somewhat from the prescribed course for admission here. At the same time she has always shaped her course with special reference to the requirements of Harvard, and shows no intention of ceasing to do so. She was one of the first academies to change her method of instruction in Latin and Greek so as to fit students for the new method of examination; and thus far the change has proved satisfactory. While Exeter may not be a "special feeder" for Harvard, she certainly does not seem to consider the requirements...
...most valuable part of the work in themes, and deserve the most careful attention. If, however, the corrected theme is not returned until the time when the new one is handed in, the student is unable to make full use of these corrections, and the faults of the first theme are repeated in the second for the simple reason that attention has not yet been called to them. This is especially the case in the Sophomore themes, where the writer has had but little previous practice, and has not learned to criticise his own work. If some arrangement could...
...WITH the first number of this volume the editors of the Crimson beg to announce to their readers the introduction of a column devoted exclusively to amateur sports. The need of some short abstract of sporting news has long been felt by many men who have not the time to wade weekly through several papers like the Spirit of the Times, who yet desire to keep up with the athletic world at home and abroad. We hope our column may supply this want, and that its excellence may prove our excuse for inserting it. The information contained in it will...
...rings to-morrow for the last time. Henceforth we must look for something else to attack. Plank walks between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel we have done as much as we can to bring about improvement, and now we are ready to wait and see what has been effected by the efforts of others...