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...purpose of this new plan is to shorten the period when recitations are suspended, a period devoted to special preparation for these semiannual examinations. At present this time is none too much for a thorough review of four months' work in half a dozen difficult courses, such as History 5 and Philosophy 2. It is evident that it will require just as much time to prepare for a one or two-hour as for a three-hour examination, because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...many instances; three of its columns are devoted to an article called "A Shakspearian Trilogy," and three more to an essay on Hogarth; no one ever cares to read such effusions as these; if there is more space than can be filled with interesting matter, why not either shorten the paper or publish none...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

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