Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...purpose of this new plan is to shorten the period when recitations are suspended, a period devoted to special preparation for these semiannual examinations. At present this time is none too much for a thorough review of four months' work in half a dozen difficult courses, such as History 5 and Philosophy 2. It is evident that it will require just as much time to prepare for a one or two-hour as for a three-hour examination, because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that...
...work. The weeks prove anything but a vacation to most of us, and those favored ones who gain a little leisure towards the close of the examinations are envied by the less fortunate. More than this, two examinations in one day, or, as it must sometimes happen, three or four examinations in two days, are more than a student can pass with credit or even justice to himself. One hour of exhausting writing would, indeed, be avoided in each examination, but all the other work which an examination brings would remain substantially undiminished. We hope that these facts will...
...catalogue, or, at most, have a nodding - I can't say bowing - acquaintance with. Now, shall we confess to these outsiders that there are many different circles of friends in each class, and that we are, in short, cliquish? Doggy, who never speaks to any one except the four men who got into his society ahead of him, and some six or seven who came after him, says he does n't see that there's any exclusiveness here. Yet you'd be less surprised to find Waitt when you want him than to see Doggy talking to Grinder. Observe...
...cups will be retained by the respective winners of the three different kinds of races until the next regatta, when they will be put up again. All nonsensical talk about "championships" will be out of place, as the victorious eight-oared crew will hold one cup, and the victorious four-oared crew will hold another cup. We mention eights and fours as the most advisable form of races, and would suggest that the third race be open to singles. This seems such an excellent project, and the costly cups are prizes so well worth rowing for, that we trust...
...name of my hero was not Jim, but George. To be sure, George is oftener the name of a good young man than of a bad one, yet this particular George was bad; there was no doubt of that. As he had been expelled from only four schools, of course he had not the slightest difficulty in obtaining a certificate of good moral character when he desired to enter college. The examinations offered a slight obstruction for a time, as George was not especially fond of study, but after a few unsuccessful trials he formed an intimacy with a proctor...