Word: points
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this point of affairs some one knocked at the door. This gave the youthful part of the Faculty an opportunity of giving vent to their feelings in the touching song, "Stop that knocking at the door." After having sung this with the customary stamping on the floor, the door was opened, and in came one of the clerks of the University Bookstore, with a little red book in his hand, which he proceeded to explain was a work just published, on a new and very interesting subject, - Political Economy. He wished to call the attention of the Faculty...
...have received the ghost of what we suppose to be the Index Niagarensis. It has "faded like a flower" to that point that we at first mistook it for a sample of rather dirty paper...
...average mark obtained on it below fifty per cent, but only when it covers nearly all the most important parts of the course, and is a fair test of the student's knowledge. Finally, to return to the former metaphor, a general would scarcely mass his forces on a point which is not even in the country he is defending; nor can a student imagine that he should prepare himself thoroughly and exclusively on a subject which is not even mentioned, as belonging to the course, in the College Catalogue...
...into the real merits and defects of the various departments is a proof of the conscientious diligence with which the committee have performed their task. They have, by a personal and unannounced attendance on the recitations in each department, been able to judge of the instruction from the students' point of view, and have not formed their conclusions from the reports of the instructors themselves. The influence for good attendant on such inspection of the College is very positive in its effects. It is almost inevitable, even with the best instructors, that, through long service, they fall into certain mechanical...
HARVARDINUS, amicis quibusdam in cubiculum arcessitis, aliquot calices, sina ampulasque, in mensam point, et hilariter canit...