Word: marked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guests. The repast was simple in the extreme; there was no wine on the table and the eating was soon over. It was a refreshing contrast to the uncomfortable grandeur of English public dinners. The audience had come to listen and did not waste time needlessly! (This exclamation mark is our own.) There was no formality, cigars were speedily lighted and every one prepared to endure the speeches as long as speeches were forthcoming. Even the departure of the president at half-past four did not break up the company, which sat without any display of weariness till half-past...
...teams are winners, an extra call for funds is made so as to present them with trophies. The amount spent for athletics by Yale men, individually, cannot, of course, be computed, but it is safe to figure that it would carry the yearly aggregate somewhat beyond the $25,000 mark. - Boston Herald...
...such a degree. I don't see how the new regulations can be regarded as an improvement on the old ones, when such a rule exists. In the old regulations, a man had simply to make a certain average; in the new, if he has received one low mark, no matter what his average may be, his cum laude is lost. Imagine a man losing a cum laude by a low mark in freshman chemistry or Physics...
...routine business of the meeting was pleasantly varied by the presentation of a gold headed cane to Mr. Garrison by Captain Peabody in behalf of last year's team, as a mark of appreciation of his services as manager...
...scale of scholarship has been changed from the old percentage system to a system of five grades, A, B, C, D, E. Students who fail in a course will be assigned to E. Last year this grade was fixed at two-fifths of the maximum mark. Failure on the work of the year is changed from "failure to get one half the maximum mark," to those who "stand below grade E." As the regulation previously read, a student who failed on the year's work as a whole, although he passed on all his studies, could make up the deficiency...