Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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With cheek turned to the sun, and half-closed eyes...
...paper as the average student will be able to answer in the specified time. The paper set for the final examination in Sophomore Rhetoric on February 21st was one which the average student was not able to answer completely in the space of three hours. Three hours and a half after the examination began a majority of the class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request...
...cramming for examinations now being done universally calls to mind a suggestion we have often made, that a sufficient opportunity should be given us to review the work of a half-year before we are examined upon it. There can be no doubt that every real student feels the necessity of reviewing his work carefully before an examination, and that the loafer must do so to save himself from a condition. Some sort of a review is made at present by every one, but few have time to do the work on every subject as it should be done...
...entertainment etiquette forbids Freshmen to go; but, at the same time, respect for upper-class men, and possibly a little intimidation, induce them to buy tickets in large quantities. These tickets are to them like the traditional elephant, and they are only too glad to dispose of them at half price to economical Seniors. Of this proceeding the Record disapproves. It does not object to the selling of tickets to Freshmen, but it declares that any man who goes to an entertainment for half-price is a "cheat"; and it is so violent in its indignation that it suggests...
...practical working of an institution is only discovered by experience, and if by trial it is found to demand changes, those changes must be made if it is to become permanent. The system of four distinct boat-clubs has now been established for a year and a half, and the organization is found to be so imperfect as to be threatened with complete failure unless some remedy be applied. To find by what changes the present system may be improved is the purpose of this article...