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...study show that the changes of elevation have been very slow and slight, with very little disturbance of the strata, and that the eras of depositions, from the Eocene to the present time, have been marked by the same processes which, even now. may be observed in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Agassiz's New Book. | 6/15/1888 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

...meeting of the Board of Overseers, yesterday, no measures were taken in respect to the action of the faculty on the athletic question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vote of the Faculty. | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has a report of the vote of the faculty, but at the request of the college authorities will not publish it till some definite action is taken by the Board of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vote of the Faculty. | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/13/1888 | See Source »