Word: paper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supervision of E. Waters and Sons, at Troy, N. Y., reached New Haven last week. It is finished in very light color and is a very pretty craft. The boat weighs less than eight-oared shells usually do. The hull has not been constructed as was ordered, and the paper has not hardened enough to make the boat rigid. It is not likely the boat can be used, and it will have to be returned to Waters. It is not yet known what shell the Yale crew will use in the race...
...marks the beginning of a movement which, it is to be hoped, will end in the partial or total abandonment of the much-dreaded finals and mid-years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have already realized this to such an extent that they give no mid-year papers. The evils of grinding...
...With the hearty co-operation of Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard in the purpose above expressed, Mr. Farley B. Goddard, Ph.D., of Harvard, '81, who has written an admirable paper on 'Researches in the Cyrenaica,' conditionally accepts the position. Drs. Poole, Murray and Head, officials both of the Fund and of the British Museum, will afford every facility for a preliminary study at the museum, and Dr. Maspero, vice-president of the Fund for France, will do the same at the Louvre. A few months of such preparatory study will thus qualify the student to begin work with Naville...
...examination paper in English A yesterday contained an editorial taken from a recent CRIMSON. It was given as a specimen of good English...
...last the long-expected Elective Pamphlet has appeared. From a typographical point of view, it can hardly be called a success. By a mistake of the printer, the pamphlet appears under the title, "Account of the Graduate Department." The paper, also, is of very inferior quality. In fact it compares unfavorably with that of last year...