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...Dean's Report we are told that the semi-annual period of examinations was shortened in order to check a "serious diminution of the time for instruction." That the expansion of the elective system had made this step necessary, no one will deny; and the scheme of groups, far from being open to criticism, is to be approved, because it allows an indefinite increase of the number of the electives and extension of the time for examinations, if the Faculty have a mind to grant it. Shortening the period for the mid-years was, therefore, a matter of expediency...
...student has four examinations on four successive days, as was frequently the case during the late mid-years, it is a physical impossibility to do himself justice, - a fact that the rank-list will probably bring to light, - and not a few broke down under the pressure. This mixed system of hour and mid-year examinations is, then, very unsatisfactory, if not pernicious, in its result; and one way of getting rid of the difficulty is to have no hour examinations, and give all the marks on the mid-years and annuals, but with the time for the same reasonably...
...Finance Club lectures are as follows: Feb. 26, Col. T. W. Higginson, "Young Men in Politics." March 4, E. Atkinson, Esq., "The Railway System of the United States considered as a Factor in the Polity of Great Britain and America." March 11, E. Atkinson, Esq., "A National Banking System Essential to the Effective Working of the Railway Service, and to the Subsistence of the People." March 18, Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., "The Modern Use and Abuse of Credit." Lectures begin, in Boylston Hall, at 7.30 P.M. Tickets free, to be had at Sever's, or of members of the Club...
...whole University will be delighted to know that the steam-whistle on the Brighton abattoir, hitherto sounded in connection with the fire-alarm system has been discontinued by order of the Fire Commissioners...
...once in three months. He was happy to say that the student is no longer a savage, but a civilized being. It is true, he remarked, that after the Freshman year there are no proscribed studies; but the men do better work than they did under the old system, as the examinations are very searching, and no one graduates without having passed them satisfactorily...