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...first recitation after the mid-years in Latin 5 the prepared work will be the first four pages of Book II of the De Deorum Natura...
...life. Mr. John Cahill, the present janitor, has rung the bell four times a day for the last 30 years, and the old man deeply regrets this accident to his pet. On the front of the bell is the following inscription in raised letters: "Guten I, Gotheborg. At Arwid Book. Anno 1742." It has been ascertained that Guten is the name of a foundry that was in Gutenburg, Sweden, many years ago, and that "Arwid Book" was the owner of the foundry in 1742. On the reverse side is a peculiar looking monogram surmounted by a crown...
...take a case in print. Suppose that "good" means a mark between seventy and eighty-five per cent. and "excellent" one between eighty-five and a hundred per cent. Suppose now that there is a book which one instructor would rank eighty-six and another eighty four, under the old per cent. system. Under the new class system the one would rank it "excellent," the other only "good." Under the old system the range between the possible marks, arising from the mood of the marker or from a difference in markers would be but trifling, but under...
...certain student in this university has been brought to notice in a most disagreeable manner. The eighth volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica containing the article on Ethics, was missing from the library for two or three days. Yesterday morning when the janitor opened the building, he found the book on the steps. The sneak who had taken it was not contented with merely preventing others from using it, but he went to the trouble of breaking the covers and tearing the binding...
...Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of anglo-mania have broken out. The Crimson has them well under way, however. - Efforts are being made to remove Boylston Museum and Francis street to cambridge. - The conference have voted that (h)ashes must not be slung on the slippery floor in Memorial Hall...