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A most salutary reform in examinations for conditions could be readily introduced by the authorities. At present, a man, who has been so unfortunate as to receive a condition, can only have it removed by an examination during some succeeding year. It is certainly inconvenient, at least, for a man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

In spite of the abolition of the standing high jump as an event in the inter-collegiate games, a measure which has been generally regarded as aiming at Harvard's athletic supremacy, we still have reason to hope for renewed success this year at Mott Haven. We retain most of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

Some literary wags were once assembled at a late dinner in London, when one of them made a large wager that he would invent a word that would soon be recognized as one of the most expressive. The next day the city was placarded with huge posters containing the strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/4/1882 | See Source »

Numerous mistakes are made among the students on account of the erratic methods used in giving official notices. In the first place the Bulletin is issued weekly containing a summary of the events of the coming week, and is more or less complete according as the law of uniformity holds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/3/1882 | See Source »

According to the terms of the articles of the proposed Cooperative Society it will require the signature of at least four hundred members before actual business operations can be commenced by the managers. That such a precautionary provision should have been made was undoubtedly necessary to insure reasonable chances of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/2/1882 | See Source »