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...that the examinations are nearly over, and we are either congratulating ourselves on having pulled through so well, or hopelessly wishing that we had done better, there naturally arises the same old question, "Of what real good are examinations?" or, as a Freshman once put it, "Quid Bonus?" The Freshman's way of putting it was, perhaps, a happy one, in as much as his question per se gives an answer, namely, that examinations are to show what a man does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must...
...visit to the new building of the Medical School, the Harvard home of the successors of Hippocrates and Aesculapins, now being used for the second year. Of the outside of the great building on Boylston street it is needless to speak ; it is familiar to most of the undergraduates either by personal observation or photographs. Few of them, however, see the inside, and it is not till after graduation that a certain large per cent of the A. B's who have enrolled themselves in the school become familiar with...
...branch of learning-is denied to Modern Languages, and attributed exclusively to the classics and sciences. The result of this pre-possession against Modern Languages is, naturally enough, a verification of the general notion. Since nobody believes that mental discipline can be obtained from this sort of study, nobody either studies or teaches the subject in the proper way for getting such discipline. There are no such textbooks as there are in the other branches of study. For a scientific exposition in grammar and the nature of language in general, one goes to the classics rather than to living languages...
...whole hubbub about "race distinction" no more enters into this question than it does into an enquiry as to the cause of either of these colored gentlemen not being a member of a particular society or club in college...
...Bernard Schraeder, who has taught in this city for three years with the greatest success, will come to Cambridge to prepare students for next examinations. Will also take a limited number of pupils either in German Literature or Conversation. Address 6 Park square, Boston...