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...power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists, Are our students ever so carried away by the fascination of sport as to suffer any appreciable interference with their regular college duties? We must again answer in the negative, for the men who have won seats in our boats, or places upon our nines are to be found among the most regular attendants at the required exercises of the college, while it is a notorious fact that the most systematic loafers in college...
...young lady, in a class studying physiology, made answer to a question, that in seven years a human body became entirely changed, so that not a particle which was in it at the commencement of the period would remain at the close of it. "Then, Miss Lisle," said the young tutor, "in seven years you will cease to be Miss Lisle?" "Why, yes, sir; I hope so," said she very modestly, looking at the floor.-[Dartmouth...
...that we had done better, there naturally arises the same old question, "Of what real good are examinations?" or, as a Freshman once put it, "Quid Bonus?" The Freshman's way of putting it was, perhaps, a happy one, in as much as his question per se gives an answer, namely, that examinations are to show what a man does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly...
Prof. Byerly will meet the Calculus section this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, in his recitation room, to answer any questions which may be asked...
Capt. Woodman has received an answer to his letter, challenging the Columbia Freshman Crew to a two mile straight away race at New London. The challenge has been accepted, and the time for the race will be determined upon in the future...