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...marked difference between the smaller schools of America and those of England is in the arrangements for study. In many American private schools a large room is set aside for a study room, where, at certain hours, all the students are required to gather for purposes of study. In England this is almost unknown. Even the practice of "chumming," so common in American colleges, is a rare one in England. "In Rugby there are dormitories in which the boys sleep, and sitting-rooms in which they gather for social life, but each boy has his room for study, usually without...
...body in more than name, taking complete charge of the courts and receiving an income by which they will be enabled to pay their necessary expenses. A large part of the money received from those who become members of the association will be expended in paying to a certain extent for marking the courts, to which all members of the association will therefore contribute in part. The charge to the holders of the courts for marking them will consequently be much reduced. The full particulars of the arrangement to be made in regard to the charges for marking courts, will...
...division of one of Dr. James' courses in Philosophy, so that the first half-year of the course can be taken as a half course is an innovation which will prove acceptable to many students. It is often the case that a man would like to study a certain part of a course when he is unwilling to take the entire year's work in that course. He may feel particularly interested in a subject taken up, while the remaining subjects of the course are useless to him. The extension of this privilege of substituting half-a-year's work...
...evening. The lectures are generally given in the afternoon. There is a reading-room, with use of pianos. The students may invite friends to lunch or dinner, but these friends must always be ladies, an exception being made in the case of father or guardian. There is a certain amount of discipline maintained. Three times a day the ladies have to enter their names on the marking-roll. The gates are closed at dusk in summer, and at six o'clock in winter. Any application for leave of absence must be supported by medical certificates. There is a strict strict...
...disregard student opinion. The ultra conservatism of the old-time pedagogue cannot easily brook the democratic tendencies of undergraduate thought in the modern American college. But the more liberal of the colleges, and Harvard, no doubt, among them, have come to recognize that undergraduate opinion should, to a certain extent, be respected. Indeed, this belief has been carried so far that in one or two instances attempts have been made to establish a system of self government among the college classes. Undergraduate opinion, it should always be remembered, is likely before long to become graduate opinion. Many of the peculiar...