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Dates: during 1870-1879
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JUDGING from the number of examinations held during the present week, the instructors wish to begin the new year by turning over the leaves of blue-books...
...meeting of the Freshman class on Tuesday evening it was voted to send a letter to the Yale Freshmen looking to a race next summer. In case an unfavorable answer is received from New Haven, a challenge will be sent to Columbia...
THREE theatrical performances of the burlesque "Fair Rosamond" will be given by Harvard graduates at the Union League Theatre, in New York City, in aid of the H. U. B. C., on the evenings of January 2, 3, and 4. Tickets may be had at 41 Beck...
...purpose of this new plan is to shorten the period when recitations are suspended, a period devoted to special preparation for these semiannual examinations. At present this time is none too much for a thorough review of four months' work in half a dozen difficult courses, such as History 5 and Philosophy 2. It is evident that it will require just as much time to prepare for a one or two-hour as for a three-hour examination, because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that...
Another object of the new plan is, to make room for two examinations on the same day. It is hardly necessary to picture the mental and physical exhaustion with which we should enter the examination-room for a second time, after having spent all the morning there...