Word: timely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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 is not counted he is hardly represented by the hour examinations. Why the thesis cannot take the place of the hour examination we cannot see. The faculty profess the greatest desire to abolish the test system and at the same time they enforce...
...passed around specimens for the audience to examine. After the lecture there was a general talk on electric lights by the members of the club. Notice was given that Professor Trowbridge will give a lecture under the auspices of the club to the students of the university some time next week...
...number of between 120 and 130 will almost fill the space in the basement between the two staircases leaving only room for a passage way. The material for the work is now at the Gymnasium ready to fit together and be put up, which will occupy only a short time, so that the lockers will probably be ready in about two weeks. There are now nearly one hundred and twenty men on the waiting list for lockers, and probably by the time the lockers are finished the number of men waiting will have reached the number of new lockers...
...desire to make my acquaintance, not only during appointed hours at Wadsworth House, from 9 to 11 a. m., but at any other hours by special appointment, which can be made with me either by mail or by conference after Chapel. Being comparatively at leisure while here my, time is more at the service of the university than it would other wise...
STUDENTS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: On or about November 1st, I shall open a school of Shorthand and Type-writing at Harvard square (positive time and location announced later) expressly for the students of Harvard College. I shall teach my new system of short hand, which is liberally endorsed by the press and expert stenographers as the easiest, briefest and most accurate system of shorthand extant; it can be completely mastered in three months and a speed of 125 words per minute acquired. Pupils write from the first lesson. The first week will be free and I cordially invite all students...