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Professor Palmer has announced that the final examination in Philosophy IV will consist of a thesis written in the examination room. The subject will be a "Theory of Conscience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/17/1886 | See Source »

...could wish, owing to the inherent unfairness of our examinations; but as they are our only means of comparison, they have to be taken for want of a better. Another step towards real study, as opposed to mere efforts of memory and blind trusting to luck, would consist of abolishing all examinations, and substituting in their place theses to be written by the students on topics given out by the instructor and suggested by the course. These theses could be written once a month, or less often, at the option of the instructor, their length varying, of course, inversely with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study vs. Examinations. | 2/8/1886 | See Source »

...forms" consist of a plank, placed horizontally, with the hard side up, to sit upon, with another plank higher up to serve as a writing desk. Upon a victim attempting to assume an upright position, this latter plank comes into play upon the small of the back, after the manner of one of the ingenious devices of the Inquisition. These forms are shellackd, stained, or painted black, according to the taste of the architect, and numbered so as to contain twice their natural complement of occupants. The chairs, fastened together as in the larger lecture rooms, offer no special peculiarities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Luxury. | 1/26/1886 | See Source »

...examination in Philosophy 2 will consist of Jevon's Logic and the first hundred pages of Bain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/23/1886 | See Source »

...examination is to consist of a summary of the matter contained in these six themes, so arranged and condensed as to present the topic in hand in a compact and intelligible form...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 12. | 1/22/1886 | See Source »

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