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...Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
...first place, the examination rooms have been cold. I do not think this can be remedied merely by making a fire and opening the registers at six o'clock in the morning. I am not a sexton, but I know that in well-regulated churches the sexton starts the furnace fire on Saturday, and often on Friday. In this way not only is the room sure to be warm, but the heat by that time can be adjusted to the right temperature. In buildings like Massachusetts and University, rarely used until examination time, this previsional care is almost absolutely necessary...
...else let us have a proctor whose specialty lies in the subject of the paper. Not that his function would be treacherously assistive, but conservatively explicative. I remember how at the admission examination they gave me Pierce's table of logarithms, which was entirely different from old six-place table I had used. I could do nothing with it, and so I asked a proctor to explain it. I was very much shocked when he explained to me that he knew no more about it than I did. Now we often find in the papers ambiguities and difficulties which...
...State Senate yesterday Ex-Governor Long was chosen United States Senator on the part of that branch in place of Senator Hoar...
...Wednesdays the freshman recitation in Advanced Greek I. will occur from 9 to 10 in Sever 18, instead of from 10 to 11 in Sever 29 as heretofore. On other days the recitations will take place as before...