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...From year to year as this development has steadily progressed under the guidance of President Eliot, its moving spirit, it has been observed that those who were in a position to note the effect of the changes were unanimous, or nearly so, in the opinion that a great improvement was being wrought. No signs have appeared of any deterioration in the quality or quantity of work done...
...regards the great body of undergraduates the reforms have been received as they were offered; here as elsewhere responsibility has had its educating effect, and the student who formerly regarded it as his duty to take the full number of 'cuts' permitted without punishment, under the new regime loses the desire to absent himself...
...dean. That in order to make it more difficult for students to prepare by a brief period of cramming to meet the tests applied, the faculty require all the instructors to provide tests of the progress of their students with sufficient frequency to enable them to enforce effectively section 7 of the regulations. That admonition be administered by the dean or by his sole authority, and that the powers of that office be so enlarged, at whatever increased expense it may be necessary to incur, that the records of attendance may always be ready for inspection by the proper officers...
...Angell, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has offered a prize of one hundred dollars for the best essay on "The Effect of Humane Education in the Prevention of Crime." The prize is open to competition by all students of universities and colleges in the United States...
...question of compulsory church and chapel attendance at Amherst, the college students have voted as follows: In favor of church and chapel compulsory, 152; church and chapel non-compulsory, 112; compulsory chapel and non-compulsory church, 48. The "awful example" of Harvard was used with effect...