Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some one examination. Indeed, I can remember men who rank in the first twenty of their class being warned on an examination in which they had been unfortunate. It is not too much to venture the statement that there are few men in College who have not at some period or another during the course received below fifty per cent on an 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...
...dispiriting. That our instructors are hard worked nobody pretends to doubt; and that as a rule they return the examination-books at the earliest moment compatible with their convenience is generally admitted. Yet, perhaps unreasonably, many of the students think that their marks might be announced within a fixed period, - three or four weeks from the examination, for example, - and our instructors may be sure that a sacrifice of their personal convenience in this respect would be thoroughly appreciated by all their pupils...
...Dartmouth has settled some disputed points in chronology. It decides that the Great Pyramid was built just "253 years after the Flood, and 150 before the Tower of Babel." This period was 3,971 years ago, and "it is but 3,367 years since Moses lived," so that the Pyramid was just 604 years old when the Israelites left Egypt...
...remember that, very naturally, they may have been better served than we, or that, while they went home to a comfortable dinner in the evening, we had to come to a tea-table as meagre as our lunch-table is now, and especially that we are at that period of our lives at which we are developing most rapidly in body and mind, and that it is therefore especially important that our food should be suitable...
...lead to more stringent rules respecting singing in the Yard. The yelling of a few blatant fellows rendered garrulous by a fictitious stimulant has occurred, and must of necessity occur, until the wine-press is counted among the Lost Arts, the crack of doom, or some other indefinitely distant period. Yet we trust the men who have caused this noise have done so unwittingly, and will show the good sense so peculiar to a Harvard undergraduate by abstaining from this school-boy habit of coming home yelling...