Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...
...warning given in the last issue of the Record, that unless the requisite funds can be secured no race will be rowed with Harvard this year, ought not to be disregarded. Two weeks of the time within which the sum must be raised have already passed. Within the coming fortnight additional exertions will be made, that the old-time struggle may be enacted again next June. It is needless to reiterate the claims which this matter has on the consideration of the College. Every man ought spontaneously to recognize the misfortune which a refusal to row our doughty antagonist would...
...memory. But when do we get the opportunity for this review? During the three weeks allotted to the examinations, you answer. But what if the most of our examinations come during the first week, as is the case with many, where then is the alternative? We have no time before the period of examination commences, since all of it is, or ought to be, taken up in the preparation of our regular recitations. So, when the fatal week comes on, totally unprepared or only slightly buoyed up by exhaustive night-work, we are plunged into waters filled with devouring reptiles...
...take the more fortunate case, where the examinations are pleasantly sprinkled all along the dusty road, oases as it were in the dreary waste of college life. Even there, I claim, the time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...
...students, then, the present system is disadvantageous; to those whose examinations chance to come unfavorably - for it is all a matter of chance, and the class subject to the caprice of Fortune is a numerous one - it is grossly unfair, while to the most fortunate the limited time does not give fit opportunity for preparation. I therefore think the object of the examinations is not attained, since they do not afford the test desired...