Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Richmond, '83, intends to leave college. He will not, however, sever his connection with his class but will return to take the examinations...
James Robinson, formerly trainer at Harvard, arrived in Boston from London last Friday evening. He is here on business connected with the shipping of cattle. He will return to England shortly, but expects to be back in Boston next March, and will probably train amateurs at Beacon Park...
...announced by Chinese papers that Mr. Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale and has lived at Hartford until within a year, has, on his return to China, been appointed chief magistrate of the city of Shanghai. People who thought Yung Wing did not amount to much because he never rose to the proud eminence of captain of the Yale base-ball nine, will now see that they were mistaken. - [Philadelphia News...
Lost - A sum of money (about $12). Finder please return to 38 Weld and receive reward...
...this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor, but the satisfaction felt by the students will amply repay the extra trouble. This is already done by some instructors, but the practice is not so universal as it should...