Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases, in language courses, when enough translation is required to take two hours, besides questions that cannot be satisfactorily answered in an hour and a half, have occurred as usual; and it is a curious fact that these long papers are almost always given by those instructors who habitually prolong their recitations beyond the hour allotted to them. A fair paper seems to be one that the fastest writers can answer in less than three hours, and one in which the important questions are placed first, if the order of a paper means any thing. Where full answers are wished...