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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I was not a little surprised that you should countenance such childish vituperation as appeared in the editorial column of your issue of December 12th. If it were not for the importance gained by its appearance in your columns, I would not answer such an ungentlemanly tirade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Your remarks in Wednesday issue about hour examinations seem well-founded. They undoubtedly voice the sentiment of nine-tenths of the students on that subject. If we are to have a return of regular, oft-recurring examinations, let us have them in the shape of monthlies, to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

The instructors in announcing the event of an hour examination generally state that the result of the students' efforts will affect to some extent their marks on the course. If a man be desirous of a good mark, he must therefore "cram," and in doing this must neglect his other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

If the hour examination is meant to stir the lazy, it falls short of its mark. Its occurrence may produce a temporary effect toward industry, but the lasting good that accrues is hard to see. Is it just that the difficult and vexatious work necessary to prepare for an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

Carlyle said he thought he should have been a wiser man and certainly a good liar one if he had followed his father's steps and left Latin and Greek to the fools who wanted them.- Amherst Student.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

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