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Third.-After the first year of elective study, the student can gain higher marks by electing courses closely connected with those which he has already taken, than by taking up new branches of knowledge. He is thus tempted to elect courses which will not afford him a proper amount of work and benefit...
Third.-For this evil there seems to be no radical cure; but it would be discouraged by recognizing fully the fact that a full course may afford only partial work to a student who has already taken a kindred elective. This is now partially recognized by prohibiting certain courses (as German 1 and 2, and Italian 1) to students who have taken other electives in the same branches. Now extend this principle to other courses; not excluding advanced students, but letting them count it only two-thirds, one-half, or one-third of their ordinary value, in proportion...
...favor of the sport. The following issue of the Princetonian contained a leading article condemnatory of the meeting and its action was sustained by a number of letters from the Alumni condemning boating. This policy was pursued by the paper through two numbers, and, as a result, and to afford the college another opportunity to express its opinion, the meeting this afternoon was called. Arguments were made at some length by speakers on both sides. Mr. Harlan, '84, the managing editor of the Princetonian, announced that the ground taken by the paper was an expression of his own views, rendered...
...never find they have them. And to any man it is of the greatest importance to be able to put his thoughts, when occasion requires, into good form. Now there are but few men who can do this without a good deal of practice. And the college papers afford just this opportunity, an opportunity for the most varied kind of talent-humorous articles in the Lampoon, stories in the Advocate, and general articles and expressions of opinion in the HERALD-CRIMSON. All the instructors in rhetoric unite in recommending this means of exercise for the mind, and advise...
...thorough system of outdoor athletics. That the smaller colleges are taking up with this system and forming leagues for themselves shows not only the force of the example of larger colleges in this matter, but indicates also the need everywhere felt for such a stimulus as inter-collegiate contests afford...