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Columbia. - Sixty per cent is required in Physics...
...Class Committee have determined to hold on to this ancient method of compiling the class history. The Secretary of a late class, in a letter to the Crimson a few months ago, showed at length that the "lives" amount to little more than a farce. "Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does...
...general health in college was thirty per cent better last term than in the fall term a year...
Speaking from experience, I can say that not sixty per cent of the class write anything at all, and the most part of what is written is not worth a picayune. Now and then a man has something worth mentioning, but the average life is a very cambric-tea affair, or about as amusing reading as the directory, here and there rising to the exciting pitch of Homer's Catalogue of Ships...
...Dean's report concerning the examinations for admission in 1876 we learn that fifty-two per cent of the candidates failed to pass in English composition, while the percentage of those who failed in Greek composition was only twenty-seven per cent, and in Latin only twenty-five per cent...