Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this respect the Madisonensis is worse than the Student; half of the June 3d number is full of uninteresting and extraneous matter; as to the Round Table it got inspired the other day, and has relieved itself by a poem, an extract from which we insert...
...literary matter in the last two issues of the Record reminds one strongly of the bill of fare in the boarding-house, where they had 'lungs, liver, and lights' for breakfast; 'lights, liver, and lungs,' for dinner, and so on in ever-pleasing variety...
...Meteor of Rugby and the Etonian of Eton both reflect credit upon the English schools; all the matter in these papers is readable, and, we should judge, of immediate interest to the students. Would that we could say the same of all our college journals! There's the Amherst Student for one, out of many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter...
...examination. Low marks resulting from circumstances outside the real knowledge of the subject are of course not as likely to come in the Senior year as in any other; still, they may then come, and one mark of below fifty on either examination of the year, no matter what the marks are, in recitations or on the other examination, the result to a Senior is fatal. To make the degree depend upon one trial, I always supposed to be contrary to the policy of the College, and any action of our Faculty tending to that end must be generally deprecated...
Another little matter may be of interest in this connection. A report has received wide circulation through College, and has found its way into some of the Boston papers, that the average mark required for securing a degree had been raised from fifty per cent to sixty per cent. I am authoritatively informed that this rule has not passed. It was proposed by one of our Professors, but was voted down by the Faculty...