Word: late
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...portrait of Prof. Hedge, late professor of German, which was recently painted for the college, has been placed in the faculty room in University...
...least has a professorship of this sort and Mr. Francis Elgar, naval architect of the city of London, has recently been unanimously elected to the chair of naval architecture in the University of Glasgow, which was recently endowed by Mr. John Elder. Mr. Elgar is a Fellow of the late Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, and a member of the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects. He has had great experience in the design and construction of war ships for the British and foreign navies, and also of mercantile vessels. He investigated the causes...
...Potter, late president of Union College, has been elected president of Hobart College...
...other hand a student may have valued his work in the examination room too highly and be tempted to slight a course in favor of others, until he learns to his dismay that he has been marked lower than the figures he coveted, when it will be too late for him to recover his lost ground. In some courses the work of correcting papers is very great and some delay cannot be helped, but it should be the design of instructors in such courses to have this delay as short as possible. In other courses there is no excuse...
...books, as the instructor is unable to arrange the seats as he would like or else must go to the trouble of writing out the names upon slips of paper and putting these upon the desks. We all know how disagreeable it is to come into an examination room late and then be obliged to spend five minutes in wandering round in a vain attempt to find a particular blue book, but it is certainly much more disagreeable for those who are already at work to be disturbed by the moving about of the late comer. Examinations in themselves...