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...instructors are working both themselves and their pupils harder. Hour examinations and theses have never been imposed in such numbers as this year. Apart from these considerations, the advance of the College in other ways should be marked by an abandonment of the old high-school notion that the shorter the vacations the larger the amount of knowledge gained, and by a recognition of the principle that by vacations of a suitable length the minds of all members of the College are so invigorated that the work done is better than it otherwise would be. While gratified by the present...
...stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five degrees. As soon as the blade is far enough back...
...matched with Mr. Evert Wendell of Harvard. Mr. Lee, I believe, was the amateur, or at all events the college, champion of America in short-distance running. Mr. Wendell's record was very unusual. It is said that in his practice runs he had done his distances in shorter time than any on record, and in the Athletic Sports which were held in Gilmore's Garden toward the end of March, he had run a race with Mr. Lee so close that at the end no one but the judges was prepared to say which was the winner...
...recently proposed changes in the mid-year examinations are objectionable on many grounds. It seems to us that an examination lasting three hours is the most perfect test of the student's proficiency: any shorter time would give too much advantage to the merely rapid writer; and the necessarily smaller number of questions on each paper would make success more a matter of chance than it now is, and would obviously be a less fair and thorough test of a half-year's work. These faults appear in their most exaggerated form in one-hour examinations; and, if the proposed...
...views expressed in the letter upon the mid-year examinations which we print this week seem worthy of careful notice. The mere rumor that the examinations were to be crowded into a period much shorter than usual has created much excitement and called forth expressions of discontent. The fact is, the work to be done at that time is necessarily severe, for in the daily pressure of preparing recitations little time is found for reviews, and each student, however opposed to cramming, finds the few days before the examinations none too long for reviewing the half-year's work...