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...impossibility to do himself justice, - a fact that the rank-list will probably bring to light, - and not a few broke down under the pressure. This mixed system of hour and mid-year examinations is, then, very unsatisfactory, if not pernicious, in its result; and one way of getting rid of the difficulty is to have no hour examinations, and give all the marks on the mid-years and annuals, but with the time for the same reasonably extended...
...just to get rid...
...siesta to pitch in and carry out his own ideas. He prefers to dream about it from a distance. In fine, he is a man who spends four years at college in filling his head with fancies that it takes him all the rest of his life to get rid...
...suit prove vain, - then rid...
...same judges for the two trials. If this is too much for us to ask, we can at least be allowed more than one judge. It would be advisable, too, that at least some of these judges should be outsiders, who have no previous impressions of the speakers to rid themselves of. We were told a short time ago that the Professor of Oratory had decided not to be one of the judges at the final contest: we cannot see why the same reasons should not also prevent him from judging at the preliminary contest, much more from being...