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...prevailing opinion that the route from Brighton through Cambridge to Boston is the most feasible for an experiment, as the travel is heavy, horse-car accommodations poorer than elsewhere, and the injury to real estate less than over any other route yet talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/17/1883 | See Source »

...instance, to an examination in natural science, and so on for the other subjects; so that the proctor would be able to understand and to decide in case of ambiguities. There is one other reason, too, which a proctor has suggested to me, and that is, that if this plan is adopted, the proctor can amuse himself by reading over the paper and finding out how much he has forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROCTORS. | 1/17/1883 | See Source »

...could take a great deal of trouble off the hands of both students and instructors by making some arrangements about the delivery of bluebooks at the examination rooms on the morning of the examinations. As the semis are now near at hand, the advisability of adopting some such plan suggests itself. Although the delivery of books to individual students at such times might entail a great deal of extra trouble on the part of the society, still it seems that some method might be devised by which everybody could be accommodated. Suppose, for instance, that before each examination every student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/16/1883 | See Source »

...other papers, yet it is certainly an ably edited paper and quite equal in most respects to any of our exchanges. Its exchange column is run in a novel and most interesting manner, and if we regularly had such a department we should be much inclined to adopt their plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGE COLUMN. | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...discussion concerning the admission of women into the medical school is explained. Temporary objections to the plan on the ground of the risk involved in new expenses in the recent transition of the school had great weight in defeating the measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 1/11/1883 | See Source »