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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what the former student was required to take perhaps a year's labor to acquire-a knowledge of the elements of astronomy-the present senior is expected to acquire in one evening. To such an extent have the modern methods of education superseded those of the past...
...nine has certainly failed to make as good a showing as any for some years past. But one more championship game is to be played, and even if we are successful in that, we shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they...
...instructor of a certain classical course stated at the beginning of the year that the examinations would be entirely at sight. Shortly before the examination he announced that he had changed his mind, and that the section must be well prepared for examination upon all the past work of the year. Now, clearly, any instructor has a perfect right to examine his section as he pleases, but the adoption of the disingenuous course of action we have described is as unfair to the popularity and good repute, which the instructor we refer to enjoys, as it is to those...
...degree. It is a matter of but little importance to the college whether the degree is or is not conferred, and interests the students much less than is generally supposed. We do not believe that the college can, with any show of reason, recede from its practice of past years. It will be understood everywhere that the honor is one conferred solely upon the office without the least regard for the individual. Whether the custom is ever a good one is entirely another question, which, however, should not be decided until the case in hand is disposed of. The possibility...
During the past term, the Austrian universities had 11,265 students. Of these, 5,010 were in the University of Vienna...