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How very exact will be the marks by this new method, which must analyze the understanding with mathematical precision, estimating the work done as the hydrometer measures the alcohol in spirits, at the same time discovering and exposing all the ingenious devices by which examination-papers have been made easy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING MACHINE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

The change that came over that boy in a moment was remarkable! His face lighted up, his eye gleamed, and he said with precision, -

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACAULAY'S SCHOOL-BOY. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

Great credit is due to the marshals, Mr. Thayer, Mr. Bancroft, and Mr. William Otis, for the able way in which they performed their duties. The Class-Day Committee deserve the praise of the college as well as of the class for the completeness of their arrangements, and for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY. | 7/3/1878 | See Source »

IN these days, when college discipline is managed with such precision, and the unhappy student who enters No. 5 is passed on from room to room, as his iniquities grow larger and his excuses weaker, until he comes out of the sieve feeling very small indeed, - in these dismal times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD COLLEGE RULES. | 2/23/1878 | See Source »

The Pierian played with more precision and accuracy than at any concert given by them this past year. Especially fine was their rendering of the three movements from the Symphony in D from Haydn, and the Friedrichs March, which received a well-deserved encore.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONCERT. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

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