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Eighty per cent. was required for freshmen to gain admittance to the advanced Latin section...
...life of him, picture her face as a whole. One day, however, Snifkins remarked that he had observed the same peculiarity in himself, with regard to those very near and dear to him. Boggles was immensely relieved. His opinion of Snifkins's acuteness rose 99 per cent. He asked him to lunch at Memorial, on the spot...
...were allowed as freely as the Regulations intend, the number on the rolls of the Rhetoric sections would fall to as low a figure as the actual attendance on the course counts at present. When, to avoid this, after having the passing mark raised from 40 to 70 per cent, an instructor deliberately tells a man with whom he is entirely unacquainted, that he should advise him not to take the anticipatory examination, it is bad enough; but when after forty men have attempted the examination, and have given more time to preparation for it than is generally given...
...which Second-Year Honors are given? It certainly looks so. And if we examine the present case in detail, as far as an outsider is allowed to, we find that the facts are as follows : One man in the Honor examinations obtained an average of marks five per cent higher than any one else; he certainly deserved Highest Honors. Now whether others deserved them too, or not, depends upon the answer to one question, and that is this : Have the Faculty a certain fixed per cent, the attainment of which, under any and all circumstances, gives Highest Honors...
...done. Stow them away in adjoining cellars until they are wanted. They could be very cheaply kept on Memorial or Fresh Pond soup, whichever is decided to be the most nutritious. You would have complete control of the market, because you would be sure to have ninety-five per cent of the small boys living within a radius of three miles. Prices could be arranged to suit the demand, varying inversely as the laziness of the boys, and directly as the laziness of the players; say twenty-five to tennis men, and at least twice as much to cricketers. This...