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...paid a ten-cent fare...
...hours have been taken until the custom has become an abuse, and this has produced confusion everywhere. Then it is thought best for a student to concentrate his mind on the same subjects during the academic year. All courses, including extras, in which the student receives the required per cent will be placed on the rank-list, but extra courses will not be credited on the Annual Scale. All things considered, we cannot find fault with the Faculty for making the new rule. But we hope that all the Professors will adapt themselves to the elective system and voluntary recitations...
...surprised. In a University where the curve can affect either a ball or a mark indifferently; where the men who want to learn the most and study hardest get the lowest marks; where an instructor marks on the English system, and assures you, as he gives you sixty per cent, that this would entitle you to honors at Oxford or Cambridge; where you can calculate any action of the Faculty by the simple rule of opposites; where, in fact, you can get everything by expecting and deserving nothing, and vice versa, - where, then, all these things are true...
...last place next year; no one is placed under a disadvantage, the only fault being that this advantage, if it be one, will have been given twice to the present Senior class. But it may be doubted whether this last place is any great advantage; fifty-three per cent of the Juniors who spoke at the preliminary trial are to speak at the final contest, against fifty-seven per cent of the Senior candidates. The difference between the proportions, it will be seen, is very slight, notwithstanding the fact that the Juniors spoke first. In an arrangement by lot, there...
NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination...