Word: hours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Tutor (blushing). - Really - ah - Miss Flyrte - I shall have to ask you to stop - after the hour...
...amount of extra work required by instructors in some of the elective courses has become something to which the attention of the Faculty should be at once directed. In the elective pamphlet we are informed that the recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention...
...proposed lengthening of the breakfast hour at Memorial Hall has been given up, on account of the trouble that it would make among the servants in the kitchen...
ANOTHER suggestion has been made which seems to us to offer an exellent solution of the difficulty, and that, too, without any increase in the running expenses. It is proposed to have two separate hours for each meal, and thus enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many...
...hour, five o'clock in the afternoon, for taking out reference-books, is inconvenient to a large number of students, especially to those who exercise from four until half-past five, since they are compelled either to give up a part of their exercise or to deprive themselves of the use of reference-books in the evening. If the hour were changed from five to four, probably the convenience of the largest number would be met; for where two persons wish to refer to the same book at the same time, the first who comes will get it, whether...