Word: statement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...published during the coming week "A Manual of the Harvard Law School." It is intended to embody in this all the necessary information in regard to the Law School, the names of the students, the clubs and their members, some of the more important examination papers, and a statement of a number of such cases as are argued before the clubs. The club system, with which few undergraduates are acquainted, will be explained, and the cases are stated, both to render the manner of work clearer and in order that any club may readily secure a case for argument...
...following is a statement of the financial condition of the University Nine...
...McGill Gazette has passed through a checkered existence, and completed a part of two volumes. It now starts out upon a third volume, and makes quite a creditable appearance. Our foot-ball team will be interested in the statement that McGill "now possesses a team strong enough to face any Fifteen in Canada, without fear of being too easily defeated." Experience has taught us, since this was written, that they are no mean antagonists for teams outside of Canada...
...term has been shortened, the writer assures us that this is not due to extravagance. It is shown that the average total expense of each member of the class of '76 per year was $1.075, while the average man in '60 spent about $560 a year. Then follows a statement that we fail to understand...
...Even good scholars, owing to indisposition, mistakes, or misunderstanding, often do poorly on some one examination. Indeed, I can remember men who rank in the first twenty of their class being warned on an examination in which they had been unfortunate. It is not too much to venture the statement that there are few men in College who have not at some period or another during the course received below fifty per cent on an examination. Low marks resulting from circumstances outside the real knowledge of the subject are of course not as likely to come in the Senior year...