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...grinding," - while our notes are not only reminders, as remarked above, but statements put in the best shape for our individual minds. For these reasons "printed notes," etc. never give the same results as those of the student himself, and are to be reprehended inasmuch as they offer a loop-hole for the man who is too lazy to take his own notes...
...college in the land which presents to its special students less advantages than to the regularly matriculated students that college is Harvard. The enormous increase of courses presented to the regular students over those presented in former years, or those at present presented at other colleges leaves no loop-hole for excuse as to individual tastes and talents which might be better fostered by a special rather than by a regular collegiate course. While special study at a large university will always offer a high premium to lassitude and constitutional langour it can but in few instances be pursued...
...powers that be do not leave many loop-holes open to the cribbing propensities of the undergraduates. The Examination papers of yesterday were printed from four to ten o'clock in the morning, being finished exactly in time for the Examination...