Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Second p. p. S. By no means...
...second match with the Beacons takes place next Wednesday...
...Catskill, N. Y., August 15. Twelve students must constitute the school, and the fee for tuition is $25. A matron will accompany the school for the benefit of lady students. For information address Mr. W. M. Davis, Jr., 15 Sumner Street, Cambridge. Professor N. S. Shaler will direct the second course, which will give field-training to men in connection with the Kentucky Geological Survey. The fee is the same as above, and the term is from June 15 to September 15. Address Professor N. S. Shaler, Cambridge...
...Electives are crowded either because they are valuable or because they are easy. In the first case, students should be encouraged to take them, and if the instructor finds it inconvenient to instruct them all in the existing number of sections, then that number should be increased. In the second case, the amount of work done in the course should be extended. In either case, the expedient of making it impossible for men to take electives without sacrificing other desirable courses is wholly improper. Our system is exactly contrary to the right one; the most crowded electives should...
...second object is, to reward those who now distinguish themselves in special branches. A man who is enough of a specialist to stand well in a certain subject, and no others, should try for Final Honours; they are for specialists, and convey great distinction. A student who does not care enough for his special study to take honours in it, or for other studies to get an average of eighty per cent, ought not to complain if his merits are not rewarded by a place on the Commencement programme, and should be satisfied with the credit given him each year...