Word: returnable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...return to our first point, was it possible for the faithful student to be prepared for the late mid-years? "Yes," say the Faculty; "the order of examinations was announced before Christmas, allowing plenty of time for reviewing." The answer to this statement is that, though the student had known the order of examinations in September, the regular and thorough performance of his daily duty, theses, and "intellectual conversation," leaves no opportunities for reviewing; and if the Christmas recess is not actually needed for rest, why continue a useless custom? As regards the preparation for recitations and examinations...
...return or we shall perish...
...effect of this production was overwhelming, until some one pointed out that Mr. W. had crowded puffs of the Crimson's three rivals into the last lines. He was prevailed upon to return under the table, and the business proceeded with a song by Mr. Edmund Clarence...
...because, 1st, we have already paid a fair price, if not more, for all that we have received here, as far as it can have a money value put upon it; and 2d, a subscription in money is not the only way, nor the best way, to make some return for that benefit we have received which cannot be estimated in so many dollars and cents...
...have the same afternoon, or the same day, free. On the contrary, a grave abuse has grown out of the traditional disuse of the Saturday hours. Many of the students whose homes are within fifty miles of Cambridge go home on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, and do not return to Cambridge until Monday morning. A large proportion of those who thus go home every week do no real studying while they are absent from Cambridge. High scholarship is not to be won on such easy terms. The serious student should regard the days or weeks in term-time, when...