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Three men obtained 100 per cent. in French...
There was great excitement on Wall street, New York, yesterday. Almost a panic took place within ten minutes of the close of the exchange. Louisville and Nashville stock declines 12 per cent...
...library during the first four months of the current year is ten per cent greater than for the corresponding period last year...
...become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas, and to neglect the general principles of the subject. And it is really silly to object because so large a proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic like your physics as now taught, to give it character. Macte virtute, Puer. The faculty approve of cramming and fosters the system...
...degree of general excellence was attained is enough; it should not be aggravatingly analyzed, and thus also with men who have not passed. They should not be embittered with such a keenlydrawn line so nearly approached, or with the knowledge that they have lost their degrees by one per cent. in one single study, as in a late notable instance. Harvard has gone far beyond the strictness of high school methods of marking, but there is yet room for a considerable advance toward a broad university system...