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...plan which has been adopted in several courses in mathematics, of giving the new problems which are to be worked out upon each man's honor, and which are to count considerable in the year's work, has much to commend it to every earnest student. That an examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject...
...only one-third of the year's work in Eist. 13 has been accomplished up to the present time, the examination in that course will last but two hours and count 40 per cent. of the year's mark. The examination will cover everything up to the beginning of Jefferson's second administration...
...Lawrence 4-3-0 Yale 4-3-0 Cornell 3-2-1 Princeton 3-4-0 Brown 2-5-0 Dartmouth 1-5-0 Vermont 1-5-0 Army* 0-7-0 Army plays each team once. All other teams play each other twice. Army games count in the standings but the Cadets are ineligible for the playoffs...
...semi-annual examination in N. H. 4, will count as 300 on a scale of 500, the final examination, of course counting...
...book in hand, proceed to follow minutely Dr. Sargent's directions, they do nothing with any life or vigor, and their Faces are as gloomy and full of despair as if they were engraved in "grinding out" a calculus lesson or making up a condition in Freshman Algelba, Careful count is kept of every motion, and when the reacquired number is reached, with frightened countenance the ropes are dropped. Such exercise is useless. Exercise to be benefit had must been treed into with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying...