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...examinations in Greek 4, which is to take the place of the final examination for candidates for second-year honors, will be held Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...life is short. But it 's long enough to have some events crowded into it that don't impress even the casual observer as trivial. Such an event has just made its mark on the Fresh - no, Sophomore page of my life. I have taken the Second-Year Honor Examinations; and the results are - well, I say to the public generally very gratifying, but to myself I acknowledge that some surprise is mixed with my gratification. Now, the thing that I have been puzzling my brains over is, why I should be surprised. In a University where the curve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RATHER SURPRISING. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

CANDIDATES for honors, both second-year and final, will present themselves for examination in U. E. R. to-morrow at 9 o'clock, and on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...Natural History Society has offered three subjects for prize essays. The first is on the "Dis-semination of Seeds"; second, "Make a Collection of the Plants of one Family and note the Peculiarities of Station of each Plant"; third, "Character of Insects : Sub-orders." The prizes will be awarded, if any essays are deemed worthy of them, in January, 1881. They are : A first prize of $25 to the individual, and some seventy fossils, and ten geological models, to be deposited in his name in the school of which he is a member; a second prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...believe it would be better in many ways to have books taken from the library in term time kept not for a month as now, but for two weeks. During the last two years the use of the library has increased very much; and as there are comparatively few second copies, we often find it extremely difficult to get a book which we want without waiting a long time for it. Probably few books taken from the library cannot easily be read in two weeks; and those which cannot be returned at the end of this time might be renewed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »