Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students of St. Stephens College, on the Hudson, eighty in number, have been suspended for a fortnight...
FALSEHOODS OF THE FORTNIGHT...
...because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that, if the time of preparation be shortened, we shall either have to sit up all night while the examinations last, or else neglect our recitations for a fortnight beforehand...
...arrange a race with the English University eights for August 1, 1879. The Faculty are unwilling to let the Crew leave Cambridge before the end of the spring term, so it is impossible to fix upon an earlier date and at the same time allow our men a fortnight's training on the Thames. It seems a great deal to ask of English crews that they should keep in practice four months after their annual regatta; but Oxford ought to consent to this sacrifice of the summer, for she has owed us a race ever since our memorable defeat...
...decide whether he can profitably elect courses which occasionally conflict. No matter how great the care taken in arranging the Tabular View, it often happens that two valuable courses have one hour a week, or, in the case of Fine Arts 2 and English 6, one hour a fortnight, in common. If the student, in laying out his college course, has planned to take these two electives in his Senior year, what is he to do? Is it not better to take them both, even with the inconvenience about recitation, than to give up either entirely? There...