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...more "science" had been displayed in the latter, while retaining the same amount of vigor and pluck. We believe that while boxing may be pleasant for our lady friends to witness, "slugging," or any approach to it, should vigorously be excluded, and, therefore, we hope that next year some method may be contrived by which none but feather-weight boxing will be permitted on the First Ladies...
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...
...only two cents a day, and each has to deal with a much larger and more troublesome class of users than does Gore Hall. You quote me as claiming that the student "should be notified when the time is expiring." Whereabouts in my communication did you find that? The method I suggested involved no more trouble to the librarian than the present method; but by a garbled quotation you wholly misrepresent my idea. I entirely agree with you that if a student forgets to return reserved books, "a privation for a time may help to make him a little more...
...interest to the college at large to learn the method of training adopted by the Mott Haven team. The team as a whole has been doing good work during the past month, perhaps better than ever before. Every day, soon after four o'clock, the running and jumping squad begins exercise on the chest weights. This is followed by jumping, vaulting and light dumb-bell exercise. As a large development of muscle is not conducive to lightness and speed, none of the exercises are long continued. They are expected to give the men suppleness; and without strict training to prepare...
...fallen from 7 44 100 to 5 19-100 per cent, and it is still falling. The corporation have avoided debt, maintained and improved their buildings out of income, adhered to the low valuation of their old stocks, reduced the valuation of unimproved lands, put in operation a method of sinking railroad bond premiums, and preserved a prudent distribution of the property among the various kinds of secure investments...