Word: term
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Term-bills due 12 of January...
...this country. From its foundation the students have been allowed entire freedom of choice in their studies, and except in the schools of law and medicine, there is essentially no prescribed course. The university is also open to all comers without the formality of examination; the rigorous mid-term and final lests being relied upon to keep the scasses weeded. It is another singular feature of the regime that, save the long summer intermission, there is no vacation, nor a single holiday with the exception of Christmas. Thanksgiving, New year's, Washington's birthday are simply the last Thursday...
...slight fire in the cabinet building at Yale, on Sunday, December 23, was the only one of importance which has disturbed their campus for many years. The damage was small and will be repaired before the new term begins...
...close of every examination time one cannot help a feeling of dissatisfaction with the process by which the work a man may have done or left undone during the term is determined. It cannot but be unsatisfactory in almost every way. But it is particularly of the system of "cramming," now so much in vogue and which our examination system so carefully nurtures, that we wish to speak. It is absolutely certain, as things are here at present, that certain men will be absent from as many recitations as they dare, and will do little if any work on their...
This morning we present the last number of the HERALD-CRIMSON for this term. The next number will be issued on the morning of the third of January, after the recess. So much has already been said on the subject of the length of our vacation at Christmas that it seems quite unnecessary to again express our regret that we are only allowed a recess of ten days. However, we trust that the vacation, although so short, may prove a pleasant one to all, and wish our readers a "Merry Christmas" and a "Happy New Year...