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Dates: during 1870-1879
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JUDGING from the number of examinations held during the present week, the instructors wish to begin the new year by turning over the leaves of blue-books...
GREEK Authors to be read for second - year Honors: Homer, Odyssey, XIII.-XVIII.; Demosthenes, Olynthiacs; Euripides, Hippolytus, omitting Choruses; Sophocles, Ajax...
...last meeting of the Faculty the proposition was made that all students be required to register on their return from the Christmas vacation, just as at the beginning of the year. The measure was not adopted, but perhaps will be next year...
...SPECIAL meeting of the Overseers of Harvard College was held Tuesday, December 10, Hon. E. R. Hoar, President, in the chair. The following appointments were confirmed: George Russell Briggs, A. B., as tutor in mathematics for three years from September 1, 1878; Sumner Burritt Stiles, A. B., 1876, as Procter. As Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts for one year, from January 1, 1879, William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow, and Thomas G. Appleton. The election of Reginald Heber Fitz as professor of pathological history was referred under the rules to Hon. Messrs. Codman, Wyman, and Green. The Visiting Committee...
...recently proposed changes in the mid-year examinations are objectionable on many grounds. It seems to us that an examination lasting three hours is the most perfect test of the student's proficiency: any shorter time would give too much advantage to the merely rapid writer; and the necessarily smaller number of questions on each paper would make success more a matter of chance than it now is, and would obviously be a less fair and thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed...