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...impossible for the ordinary mind to conceive how one student acquires eighty-three per cent. of a subject, and another eighty-four. It must require wonderful microscopy of discrimination to determine which student deserves the one per cent. It will not be long before this old-time spelling-school way of informing a man that he stands "one higher" than his classmate will have been consigned to oblivion, together with the other "relics of bygone barbarism," as an intelligent exchange...
...five years' course in the department of science at Cornell, which was heralded at first with so much satisfaction by many of the students, has now begun to present several disadvantages over the old arrangement of studies and classes. - [Cornell...
...Boston Theatre, Den Thompson will continue with his quaint old play, "Josh Whitcomb," and the large audiences that greet him, will probably laugh as heartily at his absurdities next week, as they always have in the past...
Thanks to old "Prob.," that metaphorically and literally warm weather is predicted...
...Bates College students, according to the old plan, eke out their living by teaching and odd work in vacations. Some of the lady students are said to earn from $6 to $8 per week by book-canvassing. Some of the men both preach and canvass for books...