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...Attendance is enforced at mid-year as well as final examinations in electives taken to work off conditions; in the case of a prescribed study a condition may be removed by attaining over fifty per cent at an anticipatory examination, provided the study is not pursued longer than a half-year. Notice of a student's intention to make up any condition during the academic year must be given to the Registrar on or before October 15 of that year...
PROFESSOR C. J. WHITE will be in U. 20 from half past nine until half past ten on Saturday to give copies of the new Regulations to members of the Senior Class...
...thing is unbearably slow. You look at your walls or your mantel-piece in the condition in which they at present are, and you are reminded of nothing but this same slow sort of thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that is all that you will probably discover, and your thoughts will...
...chosen your pictures with a little less regard for fashion and a little more regard for taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...
...what she has read, she will break out laughing, - which speaks volumes. She never looks older, but every season, like a good standard novel, comes out in a new cover, - each more mysterious and complicated than before. She is there in rain or shine; you half fancy she is locked up at night in the great lonesome store, and never leaves...