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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AT the last meeting of the Board of Overseers the new system of Honors and Honorable Mention was referred to a committee of three. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch was appointed Lecturer on Political Economy for the rest of the current year. It is understood that this appointment is the beginning...
THE Freshman race with Columbia will take place at New London, on Monday, June 30. The start will be made at six o'clock, and the race will be rowed under the same conditions as those of the University race with Yale.
Political Economy is put by itself, instead of coming under the head of Philosophy. The course which corresponds to Philosophy 6 this year will probably be conducted by Professor Dunbar alone. Besides this and the advanced course, there will also be a more elementary course of two hours a week...
THE two chief objects of the new system of Honours are: to incite students to greater effort for good scholarship, and to reward men who are, it is said, unjustly deprived of reward. The effect in the first respect will be, on the contrary, to diminish the total amount of...
Now we come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish...