Word: pers
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...glance it was a domestic's room. My disappointment was keen. The lady explained that one of her servants had been suddenly taken ill, and, as her family physician was out of town, she had called me. I felt of the servant's pulse, and counted 323 beats per minute. Then, taking from my pocket a little vial of homoeopathic pills which I chanced to have, I dissolved one in a tumblerful of water, and told her to take a teaspoonful every three hours. While preparing the decoction I innocently asked how Miss Rosalie was this afternoon. "Rosalie who?" replied...
ESPECIALLY there seems to be no reason why the requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition should be 85 per cent, while in every thing else it is 80. Reference to past rank-lists will show that the highest marks given in themes and in English 5 average fully five per cent below those given in other courses, so that, using the scale adopted in other courses, the actual requirement for Honorable Mention in English Composition is practically about ten per cent higher than in other studies. Perhaps it is considered that Honorable Mention in English Composition...
...price of board per week for November in Memorial Hall has been $4.29. The following is an analysis of that amount: provisions, $2.95; service, 68 1/2; coal, .10; water, .01; gas, .08; breakage, .04; interest, .12; reduction of debt, .06; summer repairs, .06 1/2; allowances for Sunday absence, .09; miscellaneous, .02; head money...
...case has arisen which the "Rules and Regulations" evidently have omitted to provide for. As the rules now stand, a student who enters College Sophomore year, and does not take enough studies in any one branch to get honorable mention, may have an average of 84 1/2 per cent and yet receive only an ordinary degree; in fact, a poorer degree than the four-years student with 65 per cent and an honorable mention. To draw the line still more sharply, in the case supposed (and such a case has actually occurred in the Senior class), the student...
Price of board per week...