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Professor. In finding longitude at sea, how do you compare your own local time with Greenwich time? Student. Put it down and wait till you get there...
From the close of the exercises at the Tree till 9, the President will receive the Class and their friends at his house; no gentleman will be admitted without a ticket...
...SUFFERER," who reckons up his troubles by the yard, complains to us of the noises that disturb the college precincts sometimes till mid-night; and we heartily concur with him in longing for a cessation of the various shouts, cat-calls, snatches of popular melodies, the repetition of men's names in loudest tones from distant buildings, and, not the least annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying...
...question has been raised as to whether a man conditioned at a mid-year examination in a required study, - History, for example, - may not be allowed to pass off his condition at the Fall examination for anticipating the subject, instead of being obliged, as now, to wait till February. This question is under consideration by the Faculty, and will probably be decided at its next meeting...
...impossible; preparation is required on the notes given only in lectures and textbooks. And this preparation is at the expense of laborious grinding. One of the famous German Etymologists will lecture hours on the subject under consideration, but if questioned on extraneous matter, he is altogether at a loss till he has his notes. There is no doubt that the training of memory is a good thing, but it should not be cultivated to the exclusion of other faculties. No more would I desire the student to be utterly dependent on his notes. Without a general knowledge of his subject...