Word: semis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hour examinations are now in vogue. These irritations, more disagreeable than their semi-annual prototypes, have grown in fashion during this year and now bid fair to become a characteristic of all the larger and many of the less numerous courses. These examinations are out of accord with the tendency of study at Harvard, and mark retrogression to the days of term examinations and required studies. Many lazy ones are caught in the trap, but we fail to see what good accrues to them by the operation, while for those who are working earnestly a deviation from good work...
...athletics. In the first named branch of athletics, much activity is being shown, owing to the fine weather which has prevailed here for the past week. The candidates for the University crew number eighteen at present, and it is expected that this number will be considerably augmented when the semi-annual examinations are over. Captain Stevenson has had a crew upon he water almost every day since the Thanksgiving recess, and will continue to do so until obliged by inclement weather to put his men in the barge which has been placed in the gymnasium, which has been thoroughly repaired...
Unratified Treaty with Nicaragua. See N. Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune...
Text of the Treaty, N. Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Dec. 19, 1884; Tucker...
...disguised form of running, and very often I agree with them. But it is not so in all cases; and there are many scrupulously fair walkers who can hopelessly beat most times made a quarter of a century ago, even if they cannot equal those made by the semi-runners of the present...