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...week in which Jan. 1 falls has been proposed in this connection. If the scheme meets with general approbation, it will be necessary for most of the universities either to grant leave of absence to those who wish to attend the meetings, or to lengthen the Christmas recess. Columbia has already arranged its calendar for next year, setting free the week of January 1 for convocation purposes, and other universities are expected to follow this example. The course which Harvard will adopt will probably not be known until after the next meeting of the University Council...
...petition is being circulated in the Sheffield Scientific School to lengthen the course of the school to four years. The petition is receiving a large number of signatures and will be presented before the faculty as soon as it has been circulated through the Sheff. classes...
...editorial referred to in yesterday's issue suggested that in lengthen-the Class Day exercises to cover two days, and particularly in adding a Senior's Dance, there would be great liklihood of increasing a Senior's Class Day expenses, which are already far from light. We repeat that if the box rents and other items of cost at the dance were to amount to "anything like the sum usually paid for boxes at the Yale Prom., either the boxes should not be built or the dance should be given up." In effect this merely affirms what the communication this...
...mail does not leave Cambridge until half-past nine and as the clerks are now in the office beyond that time there seems to be no good reason why the office should not be open. On inquiry we find that the change of the closing time would not lengthen the hours of the clerks nor be of any appreciable inconvenience to them. In fact there appears to be no objection to the plan from any source. It seems, therefore, that the convenience of a number of the patrons of the office and the occasional advantage to nearly every one, which...
There is another way in which a Latin play is instructive. Ancient poetry was a thing entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled...