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Some slight repairs have been made upon the roof of the chapel to stop certain leaks...
...University of California, in the mathematical classes, each student is allowed to assign his own lesson, the only requirements being that he shall report his progress each day for recitation and be ready for an examination at a certain time...
...extraordinary, there remains an excess over receipts to the amount of, at least, $15,000. Since the beginning of the year a gift of $100,000 from the estate of the late Eben Wright has been received for carrying on the library. The corporation will, this year, cut off certain expenses in the library of recent origin, and charge their just proportion of various expenses to the several schools; and next year will, in addition, charge special fees for supplies to all students who work in laboratories, and abolish a few unimportant courses of instruction, the loss of which, they...
...first place, the inevitable result of such a manner of carrying on a course is to cause a feeling of dissatisfaction among the students in it; in some way, it seems to disturb the even tenor of the course, for a man, gradually becoming accustomed to a certain way of preparing his lessons, is disconcerted when he finds that this is not at all after the manner of the second instructor. At one recitation he is told to give his special attention to a certain subject, which, a few days later, he is informed by the other instructor...
...then again, it must be remembered that there are two divisions of the class in German: On two hours of the week each division recites to a certain instructors, and on the third hour, as has been before mentioned, both recite to another. The first two instructors, certainly to their embarrassment, are compelled to keep their sections exactly together in their work, in order to enable their colleague to continue with the divisions. This, of course, prevents the instructors from doing much for the members of their course that seems to them useful and beneficial...