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...care were taken to have the examination papers easy. But, setting this matter aside, it is not inappropriate for us to make the few remarks, that this time of the year always suggests, on the manner of conducting examinations. We have already published some advice to proctors, which doubtless will not be heeded. We hope in addition that the rooms where examinations are held will be kept at a respectable temperature. Neither a very cold nor a very warm room is favorable to prolonged mental activity. Again we hope that instructors, proctors, and students will treat their examinations fairly. "College...
Such is the popularity and influence of these societies that only about ten per cent. of every graduating class are non-members. The result is that only two cliques, if we may use the term, exist in college. In a large university, the existence of two such cliques would doubtless be harmful to the best interests of the institution, but at a college of the size of Princeton, where everyone knows a large majority of his class, no fault has ever been found with this state of things...
...seems strange that one study, of interest to every one, should be almost entirely neglected. We refer to that grandest of sciences, astronomy. We know that there is a course given in college, set down in the elective pamphlet as Mathematics XII, which treats of "descriptive and epherical astronomy." Doubtless many students might like to elect the course if it were not for the fact that a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want, but such a general knowledge of the science as every high school graduate...
...Doubtless had the Hindoos known of the change which was to be, they would have invented a word to suit the exigencies of future generations, and in addition to freshman, Webster's Unabridged would have contained fresh-woman; but such is not the case, and it would be unseemly in us to try to improve upon the Hindoos. Freshman must stand, and in using it we desire to be understood as referring to the genus fresh homo...
...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...