Word: yeare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...examinations for Second-year Honors in the Classics take place to-day, to-morrow, and Monday...
...next year for the full year's instruction for women will be $200. The fees for single courses will vary from...
...Fractions, and Common Divisor); 5. Mathematics 2 (Algebra, through Quadratics; Plane Geometry); 6. History; 7. French; 8. German; 9. Latin; 10. Greek. This examination will be held in Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, beginning Wednesday, May 28, 1879. The regular fee for the examination is $15. For this year a special examination will be held in Cambridge, during the last week in September, for those who are unable to be present at the regular time. For further information address Mr. Arthur Gilman, 5 Phillips Place, Cambridge...
...Harvard graduates were in the habit of reading our College papers, they would be surprised, not to say bored, by the recurrence year after year of the same topics of discussion. The debate on pessimism and the Nation had a long run; then came, at intervals, satires and poems condemning annual examinations; and as lately as last week the Advocate confessed its lack of originality by renewing the time-honored attacks on the marking system. The Crimson has also returned to a well-worn subject in printing, in the issue of April 18, an article on public opinion...
...private opinion that he ought not to drink, and also that he does not like the taste of liquor; but if he hears that Swellington [the real 'popular man'] has been 'jolly drunk,' he will straightway get miserably drunk, and will brag about it for the rest of the year." If this had appeared in the Herald, no one would have been surprised, for it corresponds with the pictures of college life which appear from time to time in the public prints; but to find such a statement in a college paper is certainly startling...