Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Yale will hold entrance examinations in London and Paris this year...
...action of the French department in abandoning all examinations in three courses is worthy of imitation in other branches. It marks the beginning of a movement which, it is to be hoped, will end in the partial or total abandonment of the much-dreaded finals and mid-years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have...
...brick work. A number of alterations have been made from time to time, and the work has been much delayed in consequence, but it is expected that the building will be "covered in" before the bad weather of next winter, and that it will be completed a year from next fall, just in time for the class...
Unless some immediate action is taken to arrange more games, there is lite like lihood of the class base-ball championship being settled at all this year. The management of the class-games has been extremely bad, and affairs have now fallen into such a rut that it will be a difficult task to straighten them out again. Games which should have been played or forfeited were postponed with impunity either by the consent of both of the captains or on account of petty wrangles about the umpire. The captains of class teams who were appointed to umpire...
...annual tennis tournament was finished on Wednesday. More interest was manifested in this tournament than in any for years, and the issue of the final doubles was doubtful up to the last game. R. Carlin, '88, and W. Hodge, '88, won the championship in doubles, defeating McCarter, '88, and S. Hodge, '88, who took first last year. In the singles, F. Alexander, '90, won first place...