Word: specials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish in to-day's issue. This notice is the result of much thought on the part of the faculty. There is no doubt but that the present system of grouping courses has its drawbacks and could bear revision. Many students come here with the intention of pursuing a special course of study and are obliged to drop one or more courses because they discover that there is a conflict in the arrangement of examinations. Notable among these difficulties has been the arrangement of English 6, 7 and 8. But now, it seems, these evils are to be done away...
These readings are given for the purpose of enabling the French department to purchase books needed in the special library now in Sever...
...Special instruction in elocution, fencing, sparring, wrestling and military drill will be given to those who desire it by assistants prominent in their special lines...
...regards it has evaporated would seem to prove the little interest in it, though there is, I think, deep interest below the surface of all the stumbling-blocks that impede its supporters. The most serious is, as I pointed out in a previous letter, the absence of any special reason strong enough to supply motive power to keep the club going. Though there are half a hundred reasons for desiring the club, no one of them is sufficiently important to become the one prominent motive for it, and as they all, as it were, pull different ways the reasons neutralize...
These readings are given for the purpose of enabling the French department to purchase books needed in the special library now in Sever...