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Word: fors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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I fully appreciate the difficulty attendant upon a judicious choice of questions for an examination, but certainly a very little forethought would have prevented a Professor from giving a paper which will doubtless be very imposing in pamphlet form, but which is utterly valueless as a test of the thoroughness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

Some of my experiences last year were almost as bad. When I was told that my mark in German was forty-nine, I looked somewhat aghast, for I had written a first-rate paper. The instructor, noticing my horror, kindly offered to explain, and took me with him to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOW-WATER MARK. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

IN another column will be found the programme of the spring races of the H. U. B. C., and it will be seen, on consulting it, that it has been decided to return to the system of class races. It seems to us that this decision of the executive committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

IT may be safely presumed that all reform in regard to the matter of the green doors on University is hopeless, and we must gracefully submit to the blows on the face which they continually give us. But why cannot we have both the outer doors open at recitation-time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

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