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...always men "on the line" who are exultant in case of success, but who suffer corresponding grief in case of failure; in both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half per cent. Thus it runs down in the rank of scholarship, and hardly any ambition satisfied except that of the man at the head. The honor is usually a very empty one, a mere question of marks and marks. Thus, in many cases, the principal outcome is an extreme regret and disappointment...
...five-cent Garfield postage stamp will be ready for issue in March...
...cent bond bill was discussed in the Senate yesterday...
...Ashbury College any student who receives one hundred per cent. during the term recitations is exempt from examinations...
...wholly unworthy to be employed in an institution that claims to be a university. It is well that a man's work be reported, in some form, as good, fair or bad; but it is impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves the one per cent. It will not be long before this old-time spelling-school way of informing a man that he stands "one higher" than his classmate will have been...