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...final examinations this year will begin half an hour earlier than usual, at nine o'clock instead of half-past nine as heretofore. This change is made in order to hold the examinations in the cooler part of the day. The new hours are not entirely in accordance with the wishes and convenience of the Faculty, but they are made chiefly in answer to the general opinion of the students as expressed in the college papers...
...period in which the examinations come, the days begin to grow warm by half-past ten or so, and sometimes it becomes oppressively hot as early as ten even, and the gain of half an hour coming in the cool of the morning will at times be almost equivalent to an actual addition. Any men who have sweltered through the half hour from twelve to half-past, on a hot June day, trying to concentrate their thoughts on work, and succeeding in coming to a realizing sense of an inordinate buzzing in their brain, will receive the change with inexpressible...
...some time there has been a growing feeling in the college, that while it may be well to begin the mid-year examinations at half-past nine, the finals should begin earlier, in order to avoid the hot part of the day. Everyone who has been through a hard final on one of Cambridge's hot June days, knows what it is to long for cooler weather. Whatever change is made cannot, of course, remedy the difficulty entirely, but it can help in some degree. The hot part of the day from ten or eleven on, cannot be avoided...
...third and last of the Winter Meetings and second "ladies day" will begin at half-past two this afternoon and the doors will be open an hour earlier. The following is the order of events...
...members of the Zoological Club, the Geological Conference, and the Natural History Society, to a lecture by Professor Goodale, in the N. C. Nash Botanical Lecture Room, on the "Vegetation of the Tropics and South Seas," illustrated by the Stereopticon. The lecture will be given this evening at half-past seven...