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...following question was chosen for the next debate: Resolved, "That Home Rule in Ireland is indispensable to the future welfare of the British Empire...
HARVARD UNION. - A question for the debate to take place on March, 18, 1886, 'will be selected at the meeting tonight from the the three questions here submitted: 1. Resolved, that Home Rule in Ireland is indispensable to the future welfare of the British Empire; 2. Resolved, that Preservation of Constitutional Government in this country demands the Repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill; 3. Resolved, that the introduction of the System of Co-education would advance the best interests of Harvard College...
...precincts of learning?" If we are not mistaken, solid work in sixteen courses, or their equivalent, is required before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations at any one examination period. Such a rule permits as much undisturbed "dwelling" at Brown as is possible at Harvard. We have heard of a certain beast braying in a lion's skin, but nothing so analogous to this fable has happened lately among our colleges than this Declaration of the Brunonian. When the Harvard A. B. represents...
...marking system from one of percentages to one of broad classifications. He thinks that the purpose is to "alleviate the burden of examinations." Unless we greatly err, the matter of alleviating the burden does not come into the question; the aim is merely to mark more justly. As a rule, it will be easier to decide whether a blue book is fair or good than it will be to determine the exact per cent. which it deserves. For this reason then the Conference Committee recommended the change. Of course, if the design was to lighten the examination, the best...
Physics C like Chemistry I is a course supposed to be either three hours lectures or two hours of lectures and four hours of laboratory work. In Chemistry I this rule is carefully observed and when a third lecture or recitation is given, the laboratory work is cut down two hours that week. In Physics C the instructor now proposes to give three lectures per week without however, cutting down the laboratory work required. It is true that he makes attendance at the third lecture optional, but he intends to give an hour examination covering the work of the third...