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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Executive Committee have given abundant evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...BOATING-MEETING of the Class of '80 was held on last Tuesday evening, at which a committee of three was appointed to canvass the class for subscriptions, and to take measures for purchasing a boat and oars. The meeting adjourned amid great enthusiasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...Freshman class were suspended yesterday until after the recess, and the following examinations will be held: Physics, Saturday, March 22; Latin, Tuesday, March 25; Greek, Thursday, March 27; French and German, Saturday, March 29; Mathematics, Tuesday, April 1. All examinations begin at 9.30 A. M., and last three hours. Conditioned men who have not attended recitations will be examined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

WESLEYAN has determined to send a four-oar to "the American Henley" (or Henly, as the Argus spells it), and three of the men are already picked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...laude will be given to every one who attains 75 per cent on his college course, or receives Honorable Mention in one study, provided in the last case that he attains 70 per cent on his college course, or 75 per cent for the last three years. It is intended that the new plan shall go into operation a year from next June. The Faculty are not to be entirely bound by marks in making these awards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Song of German 2. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

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