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...this method of examination a fair test of the ability and knowledge of a student? Though a naturalist may be able to construct the whole mastodon, given the jaw-bone, it is respectfully submitted that it is impossible to acquire a correct conception of a student's knowledge of a wide subject, from the minuteness of his knowledge in one of the minor details...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS IT FAIR? | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...frequently alluded to in the speeches of the evening, of the perfect friendship and good-will which have existed between the two papers during the past year, and to express the hope, the fulfilment of which we see no reason to doubt, that the same harmony and good feeling may prevail in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...Every Saturday comes to us full of good reading-matter. A new serial, entitled "Far from the Madding Crowd," authorship unknown, bids fair to create a new sensation in the world of novels. Any one who may have had difficulty in comprehending the game of Ombre, in Pope's "Rape of the Lock," will find it elucidated at some length in the number of February 14. An editorial department devoted to literary criticism is ably conducted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFORMS. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...objection to this plan is the apparent injustice to any Juniors and Sophomores who may elect Senior studies. Will not the absence of Seniors throw the work on the other classmen, and if a Junior or Sophomore has brains enough to carry a Senior elective, ought he not to have any privileges granted the men for whom the course was established...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFORMS. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »