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...examination in German 3 will cover all the plays and poems read. The nature of the examination will be somewhat as follows: Passages to translate into English to test accuracy; German synonyms; explanation in German of phrases and passages; and outlines in German of ballads, or scenes of plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1890 | See Source »

...scientific enough to carry the ball along with their feet, English fashion, while pushing their way ahead through the opponents, but one and all, at the word, started forward violently kicking everything in the way. Upon the practice fields, which is in reality where the rules receive their best test, the 'varsity players were stronger and heavier than the 'scrub' teams which played against them. It thus happened that, with the force of their pushing and the violence of their kicking, they made it unpleasant for the scrubs to stop the onslaught in a scrimmage. It became necessary therefore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Development of FootBall as Shown by Alterations in the Rules. | 1/7/1890 | See Source »

...their abolition, there fore ought to be welcomed. Now during the present stress of work a thesis and an examination are often due almost simultaneously in the same course, and this it seems to us is distinctly rushing college work. It is the purpose of the examination to test the student's ability, to find out how well his college work has been done thus far. Unfortunately for the fairness of the test, however, the student has been forced in the month just passed to devote much of his time to the production of the thesis. Accordingly if his thesis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/8/1889 | See Source »

...students will be well worth listening to, and upon this subject his remarks will be of especial interest. There are none of us who have not the welfare of Harvard at heart primarily, and we should all welcome the opportunity of learning in what way we can test serve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/21/1889 | See Source »

...Williams eleven is by far the strongest team Harvard has met this year and the game yesterday was a good test of the strength of our eleven. The score compares favorably with that made by Yale against the same team. Williams discovered the weak points and by attacking those repeatedly gained much ground. The rush line work was very poor and Williams had little difficulty to make holes in it. The tackling of several of the team was high and the passing was slow and uncertain. Harvard's superiority lay chiefly in the excellent work of the packs and ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/21/1889 | See Source »

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