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...mathematical talent of the Faculty is employed at present upon the difficult problem of arranging the mid-year examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...attendance at the present Art Club Exhibition has been more satisfactory than at the former...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

JUDGING from the number of examinations held during the present week, the instructors wish to begin the new year by turning over the leaves of blue-books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...purpose of this new plan is to shorten the period when recitations are suspended, a period devoted to special preparation for these semiannual examinations. At present this time is none too much for a thorough review of four months' work in half a dozen difficult courses, such as History 5 and Philosophy 2. It is evident that it will require just as much time to prepare for a one or two-hour as for a three-hour examination, because in each case the same amount of work must be reviewed with the same amount of carefulness. Hence it follows that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...number of students and electives have, for the present, practically attained their maximum, and, for some time to come, no great extension of the term of the semi-annuals need be feared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »