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...Court of Chancery. When students are relieved from a prescribed course, on passing a satisfactory examination at the beginning of the year, the mark then obtained, whatever it may be, is the mark in the Annual Scale. This mark may be regarded as unjust, or unsatisfactory, and, if made known to the student in season, he might prefer to attend the course prescribed, and endeavor to obtain a more satisfactory mark at the regular examination, and he certainly ought to have such opportunity. But all the information he could obtain in the case of Soph. History (first half-year...
TENNIS.It may not be generally known that there is a Tennis court and club in Boston. There is such a club, numbering among its members the most fashionable people in the city, which has a court on the corner of St. James and Dartmouth Streets. To encourage men from Cambridge to join, the managers have reduced the membership fee to $10, - to all others it is $30. The only other expenses are a racket, about $6; tennis shoes, rubber-soled, about $7; and a suit of flannels, about $5. Besides being a most interesting and exciting game...
...well-known fact that some electives are much more popular than others, and attract a much larger number of students; and we had always supposed that the instructors not only recognized this, but even took a just pride in it, considering a crowded section a tribute to their method of handling the subject. It was, therefore, with great surprise, to say the least, that we heard from a friend of an instructor in a deservedly popular elective who announced his intention of making the course as difficult as possible, and of giving a hard examination-paper "for the purpose...
...good fortune to hear "Johnny Morgan" sung by a capital tenor voice and a very gruff bass. I am given to understand, however, that such performances are not always occasioned by a love of music. The attention that we devote to sacred music is too well known to need any comment...
...doubled usefulness of the small boy - we beg pardon, the page - at the Library suggests a larger sphere for his brother at the Secretary's office. It is a well-known fact that censure-marks and the like can be removed by depositing in the Dean's box a suitable petition; and yet this simple remedy is seldem adopted. This is caused, not by lack of excuses, for, since the hard times began, physician's certificates have been unusually cheap, but by the natural aversion all students feel towards U. 5. Only the longest experience will enable...