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EVENING READINGS IN ENGLISH.Immediately after the Midyears, Mr. Briggs will begin a short series of readings from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The first reading will be on Monday, Feb. 9, in Sever 11, at 7.30. Subject: the Prologue...
...examination, written in a very limited time, is no test of one's knowledge or scholarship, is almost an axiom. This is especially true in mathematics where much of the work is original, and where it is perfectly possible for a man who has a firm grasp of the subject to be balked at the beginning by a simple problem. Examinations may, and doubtless do, have their advantages, but the idea of giving a man the mark for his year's work on what he can write in a few hours, is simply absurd. Such a system begets superficial study...
Professor Thompson, who delivered the lectures here on Protection, will lecture before the Yale students on the same subject...
...sculptor, Thomas Brock, A, R. A. No greater expression of the high esteem with which the English people regard the memory of Longfellow could be shown than the placing of this bust in the Poets' Corner, he being the only person thus honored who was not a British-born subject...
...know that there was no such qualification for entrance, and so the fitting schools have neglected it. To be sure when Physics 1 was in the curriculum, one-third of that course was devoted to astronomy, but in order to gain even this slight knowledge of the subject, one was obliged to take a course of Optics and Acoustics. What we think is needed here are into courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little or no mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really...