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ACCORDING to the "College Bible," no final examination shall ever extend beyond three hours. Every instructor is therefore expected to put such a paper as the average student will be able to answer in the specified time. The paper set for the final examination in Sophomore Rhetoric on February 21st was one which the average student was not able to answer completely in the space of three hours. Three hours and a half after the examination began a majority of the class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since...
...under stand a great principle in its larger working, is not the best evidence of his capacity to criticise it in a case of less importance. In spite of the assertion of our oligarch, it will appear, we hope, that the undeniable principles of our national democracy will answer for our class elections...
...Advocate paraded in all its broken splendor, where each table was represented as having signed away its birthright to beer and brandy for the services of an undivided waiter, and then to have been cruelly defrauded of several shares in that waiter by a merciless College, - we can only answer that that scheme (alias contract) existed only in and for the year 1874-75, as is stated clearly in the head lines of that instrument...
...wrote six pages in answer to this question, has discovered his mistake...
...only proper way; that alter and not unus is "one of two," and that the preposition is inadmissible. Now it happens that what is wanted here is not alter, "one as opposed to the other," but unus, "one without the other; one and not two." But the only proper answer, the all sufficient answer, is to refer to Horace (Satires, I. 4, 10): Versus dictabat stans pede in uno, where the editions and dictionaries speak of it as a proverbial expression. Not that stans pede altero might not be used in some cases. If Mr. Reiley were to call...