Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first article censures the actions of some professors with regard to voluntary recitations, and ends with the statement: "In some courses voluntary recitations are now simply a farce." I can hardly believe that a calm examination of the facts would bear out this assertion, and it would be well to remember that in all probability the Faculty did not make the Senior recitations voluntary in order to render Senior year a comfortable "loaf...
...student is at all doubtful of his position, it is of course very important that he should know precisely where he stands; and a desire to know what marks have been awarded at examinations is by no means confined to the class of people who regard their studies as necessary evils. A number of men of high standing are very anxious to know what the success of their work has been; and a knowledge of marks has an influence rather beneficial than otherwise upon all. If the mark is high, it is an incentive to push on, in hope...
THERE seems to have been some misunderstanding among the students in regard to the number of marks necessary for a degree. That an average of 50 per cent must be obtained for the whole course, and that the average for Senior year must be 50 per cent, all know. But many students have been in doubt whether it was necessary to obtain this mark on each study, or whether a general average was all that was required. We have the authority of the Registrar to state that the latter is the case. A Senior who obtains less than...
WITH our term bills has come the usual notice in regard to college rooms. Several new regulations have been made which will probably have the effect of putting an end to the bad practice which has so long existed, of drawing for rooms without intending to use them, and selling them to those who are less fortunate in the allotment. By the old system all except the few who drew rooms were obliged either to pay a large bonus for the privilege of rooming inside the Yard, or else were obliged to room outside. This converted the allotment of rooms...
...print the agreement between Harvard and Yale in regard to the Regatta at Springfield. The rules under which the race is to be rowed are substantially the same as those in force at Saratoga...