Word: years
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final examination in N. H. 4 will last two instead of three hours, and will cover the work of the whole year...
...apparent reason why the whole junior class should be compelled to remain in Cambridge a week or ten days after the examinations of the majority are over. Men are forced to spend a week of idleness here, which they might spend much more pleasantly or profitably elsewhere. This year the junior forensic examination is set for the twentieth of June. Now we notice that there are no examinations set for the thirteenth, just a week previous, and we can see no good reason why the English instructors should not be requested to change the examination in English...
...Whatever may be said of Harvard's tendency to neglect study for the encouragement of athletics, her system of deturs, prizes, scholarships and final honors has by stimulation to overwork caused the death of many a promising student. I was graduated from Harvard nine years ago, and know whereof I speak. The sudden insanity of one of the most promising of recent graduates recalls painful memories of that forcing system which has so long been in vogue at my own university. The leader of my class shortly after entering upon his sophomore work died of brain fever. The brightest light...
...scholarships. During my own course I never ventured to apply for a scholarship. I knew that it would be useless. My marks were not high enough. I believe, however, that none of my instructors would have denied that I was a hard-working and needy student. During my senior year my health was broken, through spending my spare time as a private tutor or as clerk in the library at fifteen cents an hour, and also through lack of food which could not always be procured. Several of my classmates were living as gentlemen on scholarships which they...
...This is rather earlier than usual, owing to the new rules adopted by the Intercollegiate Association in regard to the entries for the Mott Haven games. The class meetings will probably occur on the Wednesday previous. This meeting will be held eleven days earlier than that of last year, which took place on the 16th...