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...instructors have found it in their hearts to confront the members of their courses with hour examinations to be held a few days before the mid-years begin. Such acts are inscrutable and therefore are very hard to deal with, but it does seem as if an hour examination thrust upon the already overburdened students at this season of the year ought not to pass by without incurring a protest. Hour examinations at best are very unsatisfactory performances for they require almost as much examination cramming as three hour examinations and count for almost nothing after all. But an hour...
...Johnson says, "already dead." If it is to present a series of public Shaksperian recitals, it is incapable of accomplishing such work satisfactorily. Few desire its revival; none desires to create in it another opportunity for such a ludicrous and preposterous exhibition of inane and cheap acting as was thrust upon the university two years ago in the form of "A Presentation of Julius Caesar by the Harvard Shakspere Club...
...showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under half a dozen Harvard men; that is, if he had stood up straight, those half dozen would have caught him just below his shoulders, and not one would have got under his thrust...
...shortly to visit all rooms in the yard, in quest of contraband signs, is again afloat. Now as a visit from one of the faculty is always a very agreeable affair, few men would be so devoid of sense as not to appreciate the honor which may be thus thrust upon them. But, as for the Cambridge police, we think we may be pardoned, if, under the circumstances, we decline their society. Although a member of the faculty may enter a student's room at pleasure, a policeman cannot enter without a search warrant sworn out for that particular room...
...stock, and that kind is sure to be well patronized by the supporters of the victorious crew. Of a truth the New London trader is a happy man, for, while the Cambridge or New Haven merchant must suffer in turn the distress of unpaid bills, he has shekels unnumbered thrust into his very face...