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...nights at the theatre and of his numerous "cuts." He was looking up the questions on old examination papers, and as he took up a Political Economy paper his head swam dizzily round, and he could hardly make out a question. "On what does the price of college rooms depend?" was the first that...
...probably be the last chance that Lee and Wendell will have to meet in the Intercollegiate Sports, as the former graduates from the University of Pennsylvania this spring. A match for a gold medal is talked about by the friends of both parties, the result of the race to depend on a single heat. It seems advisable, however, to some of Wendell's friends that the trial should be the best two in three heats, as Lee's incomparable way of starting might, in a single heat, be sufficient to give him the victory...
...think that the mid-year examinations have "gained undue importance in determining our marks"; for, with voluntary recitations, no great prominence should be attached to marks for recitations, and, if we are marked chiefly by examinations, it is unfair to make our rank depend mainly on the annuals...
...tickets issued by the Nine for the college games to take place in Cambridge are put at a very low figure, when it is taken into consideration that there are eight coupons; and we cannot urge too strongly the advisability of buying these tickets, on which the Nine depend to a great extent for their resources. Unless a sufficient number of them can be disposed of among ourselves, the Nine will be obliged to have recourse to the unpleasant duty of asking for subscriptions. Let us spare them the trouble and ourselves the torture...
...main object in taking any elective, and marks, whether high or low, cannot affect the student's real acquirements; but so long as he is required, in order to test the faithful performance of duty, to submit to examinations, upon the result of which college rank is made to depend, such examinations should be fair and impartial, and they should be based upon sound, well-regulated general principles, rather than the arbitrary and fanciful theories of each individual instructor...