Word: giving
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hall will be kept open during the Christmas recess. Those members who remain will pay the regular price for board. Those members who are absent will receive full allowance, provided they give notice of such absence an or before December 20. At the close of the recess the Auditor shall ascertain the amount of the deficit, if any, due to the Christmas recess, and shall assess the same equally upon all the members of the Association...
...recently proposed changes in the mid-year examinations are objectionable on many grounds. It seems to us that an examination lasting three hours is the most perfect test of the student's proficiency: any shorter time would give too much advantage to the merely rapid writer; and the necessarily smaller number of questions on each paper would make success more a matter of chance than it now is, and would obviously be a less fair and thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed...
...alive without active and constant work on the part of all interested in it. The active work of the present members of the Finance and Philosophical Clubs deserves all commendation, and we trust that all those who are interested in either political economy or philosophy will not hesitate to give their aid to these organizations...
...inscrutable reason, this favor cannot be granted, the separate marks given to each forensic should at least be announced when the last forensic has been examined, and not merely the average on all. We make this request with the more confidence, since the instructor has shown himself willing to give as much benefit as he can to those who enjoy his instructions...
...they do not possess it; thirdly, that other colleges and the outside world are deluded into this belief, and fall down and worship the gilded calf. We remember hearing a young sport say in a library in this city: 'There's no doubt about Harvard. I would n't give two cents to graduate at Yale. I graduated at Harvard.' Better no education at all than such an education...