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...subject is entitled to a degree magna cum laude, and one who receives highest honors gets a degree summa cum laude. This, at first sight, may appear fair enough, but if the subject is examined closely the great injustice is at once apparent. A man who has special ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance, suppose a man who hardly possesses more than average general intelligence should accidentally have a gift for music, a thing not impossible...
Prof. Lyon lectures at 12 M. today in Divinity Hall Upper Lecture Room, on Assyrian Antiquities. The special subject is: The Izdubar Legends (continued). Chaldean Account of the Deluge...
...Special notice should be taken of the regulation that students who leave Cambridge for the recess must first return all books borrowed from the library...
They have a special class of examinations at London University, called "external." opened to those not connected with the university...
Certain Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Special subject: R. W. Emerson (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...