Word: puer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic like your physics as now taught, to give it character. Macte virtute, Puer. The faculty approve of cramming and fosters the system. So go in and cram. Perhaps you will dig through to China...