Word: objections
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HENCEFORTH the names of students, as they appear on the rank-list, will be divided into groups; each group containing those whose ranks range between certain per cents. The object of this is to avoid the excessive and useless time usually spent in getting up technicalities for the sake of one or two per cent more...
...YALE graduate has an elaborate article in the Springfield Republican on the management of the Yale-Harvard race. He recommends that a definite course, fixed by permanent landmarks, be decided upon, and that a standing committee of graduates and citizens be appointed to manage the whole boat-race. We object to his apparently firm conviction that this race is to be henceforth and forever rowed at Springfield; and we do not believe with him that the fact that anything is done or left undone in the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge is in itself sufficient reason that the same...
...burning desire for useful knowledge concerning the construction of aesthetic chimney-pots and fences. But I was mistaken. He is supposed to have a desire for authoritative criticism of public men, derived from the daily papers, and illustrated by allusions to the politics of ancient Rome. Now what I object to is that this branch of the subject was not mentioned in the list of electives, and this was, I presume, the cause of my mistake...
...Greek, one play of Euripides. French and German may be offered instead of Greek. In the languages the examinations aim to find out whether the candidate has "a sound and accurate knowledge of these languages." There are twenty fellowships, of the value of five hundred dollars each, whose object "is to give to scholars of promise the opportunity to prosecute further studies, under favorable circumstances, and likewise to open a career for those who propose to follow the pursuit of literature or science." There are now in attendance twelve matriculated, and twenty-three unmatriculated students, besides twenty-nine college graduates...
...examinations chance to come unfavorably - for it is all a matter of chance, and the class subject to the caprice of Fortune is a numerous one - it is grossly unfair, while to the most fortunate the limited time does not give fit opportunity for preparation. I therefore think the object of the examinations is not attained, since they do not afford the test desired...