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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1882 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/21/1882 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/20/1882 | See Source »

They have a special class of examinations at London University, called "external." opened to those not connected with the university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/19/1882 | See Source »

Certain Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Special subject: R. W. Emerson (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 12/14/1882 | See Source »