Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hall, still another consideration presents itself. By late dinners the gas expenses, already sufficiently large, will be increased, as the waiters and other employes will be engaged in clearing up till a very late hour. Nor is this all. Men will not be satisfied, after being without food for five hours, and running to and from recitations during this time, with nothing but bread and butter and a cup of tea at noon, but it will be necessary to place before them a large quantity of meat not required now at tea, because the interval between meals is so short...
...ready for action. "Occasional examinations" are scattered broadcast in every elective, and heavy is the list of deads. The traditional softness of the junior year is rapidly assuming the form of a myth; an unfortunate member of that devoted class was heard sadly to remark that he had had five examinations, two themes, and one forensic in four weeks, and had just been grievously harassed in the Dean's office for being half an hour late with his second theme. Occasional examinations are, doubtless, a great preventive of cramming; but if forty examinations besides the "goes" are to be given...
Then, too, themes and forensics are very good things, but, as they are marked at present, their imposition is simply a bore, with few good results. Three hundred marks are given for six themes on a scale of seven thousand five hundred; so that a falling off of twenty-five per cent in the excellence of all one's themes would reduce one's general average only one per cent. It is scarcely to be expected that a student should devote fifteen hours to writing and rewriting a theme, when twelve hours' less application would make a difference...
THERE is hardly an improvement for the winter that, for the money spent on it, would give more general satisfaction, than a large lamp and reflector placed outside the south door of Memorial Hall. Now, on stormy evenings, every one of five hundred men must shuffle doubtfully down the steps in the darkness, or leap boldly into the night with little idea where he will land. Ice and snow would render the descent, short as it is, uncomfortably precarious. The use of merely proposing such an improvement is, we know, questioned, but few men are generous enough to take...
...American tendency to apply the name of "college" to every school that attempts to impart anything beyond the first rudiments of knowledge is well shown here. There are three hundred and thirty-five institutions mentioned in this Directory, which differ in everything but in name. At one of these institutions there are 1,330 students, and at another there are 7 students, but they are both called "colleges...