Word: term
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yachting seems to be popular at Oxford. The University Sailing Club held a regatta on the 3rd of December, and has announced dates for five more races to be sailed during the coming term...
...Harvard, perhaps being slightly more at Oxford. An almost necessary item of expense at an English University is a fee for "coaching," or tutoring, as we would call it. With us, aid from private tutors is confined almost entirely to men who have neglected their work during the term and are desirous simply of passing the examinations; but there, the best scholars, those who are working for the prizes, are the men who avail themselves most frequently of a tutor assistance; indeed, it is considered impossible for any one to get a scholarship, unless he has got through a certain...
...following were elected officers of the Delta Upsilon for the next term: President, R. S. Bickford, '85; Vice Pres., E. N. Snyder, '86; Secretary, J. N. Palmer, '86; Treasurer, H. M. A yars, '86; Chorister, B. C. Henry...
...examination in French 1 was a decided surprise, and source of gloom to many of the once happy and confident members of the course. It covered pretty completely the work of the term...
Another name for tutoring is "coaching." However, this is a term that is rapidly going out of use. Paid coaches, you know, are objectionable...