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...present on the board, giving no chance for the selection of additional editors to fill up the quota from that class. As for eighty-seven, so little work has been produced by them that great delay will be caused in finding freshman editors unless they show decided improvement in the near future...
...which we are all so busy as the last few days before the semi-annuals, unless it is while they are actually going on. I, therefore, learn with surprise that the fourth junior theme will be due only two days before the first examination. Only one thing could show more disregard for our convenience, and that would be to call for the fifth theme in the midst of the examinations. As this seems likely to be done we can only hope that it will not be done...
...which we are all so busy as the last few days before the semi-annuals, unless it is while they are actually going on. I, therefore, learn with surprise that the fourth junior theme will be due only two days before the first examination. Only one thing could show more disregard for our convenience, and that would be to call for the fifth theme in the midst of the examinations. As this seems likely to be done we can only hope that it will not be done...
...Lesseps, in an amusing speech at the distribution of prizes at the Lycee Henri IV. of Paris, declared that when he was examined for his Bachelor's degree the examiner took down a map and asked him to show where the north, south, east and west were. Neither he nor any of his comrades knew the cardinal points, for in those days geography was not taught...
...come to him by intuition, and many things in his books which might appear to be borrowed from others are really original with him. He was as eccentric in his teaching as in everything else that he did. He had much of the Socratic way of asking questions to show a pupil his ignorance, and then leaving him to help himself as best he could. He often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely...