Word: even
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...elective system, though far superior to the prescribed, has also its drawbacks. Perhaps the most frequent and greatest difficulty, even to the earnest student, is in deciding what to elect, and in learning who is to conduct the course; whether the professor named in the elective pamphlet, or some unknown alternate. At the end of his Freshman year, especially, is the student placed in a critical and doubtful position. Mistakes in electives are inevitably made, and the Junior regrets that he frittered away his Sophomore year on La Fontaine, when he might have taken a solid course in English, science...
...Atlantic contemporaries were less interesting even than ordinary this week, and we picked up the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal, to see what they were doing on the other side. No wonder that a fine eight can be made, when the Journal publishes a list of thirty-four eights in practice, belonging to the different colleges which compose the University of Cambridge...
...took a trip after Commencement and went as far south as Philadelphia. Leeds led the batting this year, with a record of .503 for total base hits. Taken altogether, the results of the year were eminently satisfactory, and no Harvard Nine since that of Bush showed so well, even with professionals...
...generous offer, and has shown its willingness to give the public the benefit of its collections. It is thus not unreasonable to hope that, as soon as the finances of the Library will allow it, the reading-room, at least, may be kept open for us on Sundays, even if it is not found practicable to keep open the delivery department...
...must earnestly protest against the zeal which certain instructors displayed in the manner of conducting recitations during such weather as that of last week. Faithfulness to one's department is admired by none more than by us. But even in faithfulness, there is a golden mean. Some instructors did have the kindness to dismiss their sections after a short recitation. Others, however, persisted in keeping their sections crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors...