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...instructors seem unable to determine what should be a paper of fair length for a three-hour examination, as has been rather forcibly shown by some recent examinations. This is an old grievance, it is true, and one that has often been commented upon, yet its constant recurrence seems to call for even further notice. The only answer made to complaints on this subject is that the system of long examination is designed to bring to light the men who have failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when...
...work being done by his section, without subjecting the students to the worry and annoyance which were the inevitable accompaniments of the old-time required examinations. Those who are up in their work, under the new system, are rewarded by being allowed to omit a portion of some three-hour paper, while the men who feel that a little further preparation would do them no harm, are given the chance to make one more trial to raise their mark...
...cheap, very cheap, but Memorial has not yet had them on the regular bill of fare. And for lunch, too, we still have hash and beans and archaeological pies, with "weggy-table" soup, instead of some palatable little dishes that will revive the exhausted man after a stiff three-hour annual...
...Williams, instead of carrying several two or three-hour courses along together, the student is compelled to take three studies with recitations in each five times a week. He is expected to finish some of these courses before the term is out, and then other studies with recitations five times a week are given...
...rooms in which the examinations are to be conducted becomes quite an important consideration to every student. Especially is this true during the warm weather of the middle of June. When a number of men, as sometimes happens, are put into a hot, close room to under-go a three-hour examination, or, indeed, even a shorter one, unless every precaution be taken the air necessarily becomes impure and unfit to breathe, greatly to the disadvantage of those at work. And since the result of a year's work may depend on one examination, it is but fair that...