Word: sortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...congratulated on the success of their work. Their energy in securing the requisite number of subscriptions for the heliotype album deserves especial commendation. '83 among her other achievements has, through their energy, the honor of being the first class to have class albums of this sort...
Most of the societies live and board together; the older ones own houses, and none but the most insignificant are without some sort of a habitation. These houses supply many conveniences which students usually are compelled to do without. Moreover they lessen the expense of living to their inhabitants, especially where the chapter owns the house...
...courses not exclusively "lecture" courses, which will add variety and interest to the work of the students, are to be welcomed. The instructor in Greek I. has adopted a plan which, although not differing materially from similar methods tried in other courses, furnishes an excellent illustration of the sort of work which, if more extensively adopted by other instructors, and introduced as a part of the regular work of the course, and marked as such, might do away with a considerable part of the evils of the present system of examinations. The plan proposed is that at frequent intervals members...
...university itself, whose nominal head is the chancellor, a nobleman, and in reality but little connected with the place. Its real head is the vice-chancellor. Under him are two proctors (far different from ours, since they are very important personages in the community) who are a sort of police captains, and the police force at Oxford is, we are happy to say, quite of a different nature from the one in Cambridge...
...Nation of this week contains a communication from "Anti-Butler (Harvard, '83)," in which the writer condemns the conferring of degrees by Harvard upon men who have attained political rank, but are perhaps not noted for their intellectual power. He calls this action an "annual farce," and asks, "What sort of civil service reform is the university teaching...