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...tendency to give too long examinations is quite as evident this year as it has ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully...
SOPHOMORE Themes. Sections 1 and 2. Allen to Dunton. Theme 1. All who have not received their themes will find them in the Dean's office. Theme 2. Subjects : "What great results are involved in the election of Mr. Garfield," "Early Marriages." Theme 1 must be returned with a correct copy, and Theme 2 must be handed in at Sever 3, on Thursday, December 2, at 3 o'clock. Members of Section 2 A will hand in their themes at 4 o'clock...
...single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct the error. For if now, when we can have the windows open, the air is extremely unpleasant, if not injurious, how shall we endure it when the winter forces us to keep the windows closed...
...that a fair comparison would be impossible. The standing broad-jump at Williams must have been made with weights, as otherwise it would be a best-on-record. The only event in which the best American College record is beaten (unless it turns out that this latter record is correct) is the 100-yards dash in the McGill Sports, as mentioned above in the account of those sports...
...requested to correct a statement about the amount of the Iliad to be read for Second-year Honors in 1880-81. The notice published in the Crimson last year should have read: "Iliad, XIII., XVII., and XIX., Ames's or Paley's edition...