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...President Mark Hopkins has taught all of the 1727 living graduates of Williams College with the exception...
Another change that this year has brought in the examination papers lies in the different method in which they are to be marked. The instructor can no longer, as in former years give a fixed value in per cents to each question, foot up the total and give the mark accordingly. The system of marking by classes will force the instructors to judge the papers as a whole and to establish the gradation of marks by a careful comparison of all the papers with the most perfect one they find...
...gymnasium was in use, the tug of-war teams used to be composed of four men, who, instead of poising for a drop, as to-day, leaned all their weight upon the rope preparatory to a heave. The referee pressed the centre of the rope down upon a chalk-mark on the floor, both teams were told to "get ready," and at the word, the rope was released, and they sprang back with a jump, heaving all together. Whichever team had the most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised...
...though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
...will of the late benefactor of our University almost one-half of his estate is given to the college library. That it should have occurred to the minds of many of the students that now it is possible to light Gore Hall in the evening shows no mark of indecent haste. We shall not therefore consider that the question of lighting the library by means of the recent bequest is an unfit one for our columns...