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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...these semiannual examinations. At present this time is none too much for a thorough review of four months' work in half a dozen difficult courses, such as History 5 and Philosophy 2. It is evident that it will require just as much time to prepare for a one or two-hour as for a three-hour examination, because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that, if the time of preparation be shortened, we shall either have to sit up all night while the examinations last...
Another object of the new plan is, to make room for two examinations on the same day. It is hardly necessary to picture the mental and physical exhaustion with which we should enter the examination-room for a second time, after having spent all the morning there...
...Times written by a Cornell correspondent, which are full of the most unwarranted attacks on Yale and Harvard. It would, perhaps, be better to treat his remarks with the silent contempt they deserve, but we feel that it is of the utmost importance to preserve kindly feeling between the two colleges, and therefore we cannot let it pass unnoticed. That this gentleman expresses the opinions of his college in the matter we do not believe, and yet it is singular that he should have been allowed to go on writing to the "Spirit" for the last month uncontradicted...
...greatest Italian masters. In these copies we are able to discover the spirit and the treatment peculiar to these artists, as well as the beauty of their coloring. Some of Mr. Ruskin's own drawings and water-colors are included in the collection, which covers the walls of two good-sized rooms. Visitors are admitted during the afternoon and evening. The exhibition, which has been well attended, will close this week...
...each of them is willing to do anything towards securing lectures on its special subject; by combining they could give us a full course of lectures which would be both varied, interesting, and profitable. One society, we understand, has already taken some steps in this matter, and the other two are disposed to look favorably upon it. If the Faculty hesitate to use their independent powers towards giving us such a course of lectures, they may, at least, be willing to heartily aid the students in their efforts...