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Indignant student who has received only 30 per cent. - "Prof. H -, I don't deserve this mark." Obliging professor - "Yes, Mr. X - , I was a little partial in your case...
...regard to the occupations, or professional destinations of 1226 recent graduates, the survivors of ten classes (1867-1876), as stated in the class reports issued (with one exception) three years after the year of graduation, the following interesting table is given in President Eliot's report: Law, 36 per cent.; medicine, 10 per cent.; theology, 5 per cent.; scientific, 6 per cent.; teaching, 9 per cent.; business, 21 per cent.; unknown and miscellaneous, 13 per cent...
...whole, show a total this year of $4,511,861.59 a net increase over the previous year of $278,441.34. The annual income from this general capital is $233,352.88. The rate of income for 1882-83 is likely to be below five and a half per cent. The deficit for the year in the departments dependent upon the college proper is $14,738.63; but the Divinity, Law, Medical and Scientific Schools each show a small surplus, as do the Dental School and Bussey Institution. These surplus funds have in the main been used to offset previous debts...
...York Tribune Association, at its annual meeting today, declared a dividend of 25 per cent...
...done faithful work in his courses is but little difficulty. A man who gets honors in any subject, receives a magna cum laude degree practically for eighteen hours work. But for a man to get this degree in regular course he must attain a mark of eighty-five per cent. in his last three years, i. e., for 42 hours a week, a mark that would certainly give him honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty-two hours...