Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hour at billiards every...
...year examinations will be crowded into about sixteen days, and the examination in two-hour courses will be held in the afternoon. Three-hour courses will have three-hour examinations as formerly. This will not apply to the Annuals...
...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...
...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, if the time of preparation be shortened, we shall either have to sit up all night while the examinations last, or else...
...hour at billiards every...