Word: skipping
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...lectures and submitted to the lecturer who corrects and returns them and at the end of the year, in April, regular examinations are held, made out by the University, not by the lecturer himself. If a man takes three years of this work and passes satisfactory examinations he may skip the first year of the regular university course. This lends a dignity to the movement which it does not have, as yet, in this country. The movement is more intimately connected with the University in England than here. The subjects discussed are gone into much more thoroughly and deeper subjects...
...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...