Word: recent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would...
...cleverly written satire on the recent Shakespeare controversy has been published in Cambridge by William R. Thayer. It is entitled "The Shakespeare Hoax" and is on sale at Sever's and Amee...
...recent sale in Boston, autographs of former Harvard presidents brought high prices...
Prof. Shaler has advised the class in N. H. IV to read Professor Croswell's translation of the younger Pliny's letters which appear in one of the articles on "Volcanoes" in a recent number of Scribner's Magazine...
...recent issue of the N. Y. Evening Post contains a letter from President Eliot on the Blair Educational Bill...