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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boarding-place for themselves may be interfered with at the pleasure of the Corporation. As in the reign of George III. ministers were continually called upon in the House of Commons to deny, if possible, the existence of any unseen "influence behind the throne," so, on a smaller scale, there should be some means for our officers to declare publicly that they have not been unduly hindered in the performance of their duties...
...good general knowledge should not be sufficient to carry a man through his entire course, while more remarkable exhibitions of scholarly attainment should be reserved for the honor papers. This Freshman paper in Geometry, however, is a long succession of mathematical puzzles; and we are informed that the scale of marks has been so low that nearly one hundred members of the class are in imminent danger of conditions. We are bound to express our surprise that the number is so small, and to utter a remonstrance against an excess of rigor which can only be explained by the supposition...
Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference...
...stand against him as a condition, "to be removed in the usual way." It is, moreover, probable that a large proportion, if not a majority, of the cases of excused absentees will be unaffected by the sixty per cent maximum provision, since the marking will be done on a scale of a hundred, and not of sixty. That is, full credit will be allowed for a sixty per cent knowledge, but all above that goes for nothing. It is likely that most of these men will be perfectly content with sixty, or even fifty-nine per cent...
Secondly, the writer urges as favorable to the project "the generous rivalry, communion, and fellowship" which would ensue therefrom. He regards the "emulation and enthusiasm provoked and produced" by the regatta as one of its best features, and asserts that "all this would be realized on a more elevated scale" in the proposed contest...