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...recent item to the effect that Captain Perkins, of the University crew, was about to organize an auxiliary crew in order to accept the challenge of the University of Pennsylvania again brings up the subject of forming auxiliary teams. There can be no doubt that it would be greatly to the advantage of all the teams to have these auxiliary teams to pick from; and the advantage would be in several ways, it would be an inducement to more men to try for a place on the teams as they would have some hope of playing in matches with outside...
...prepared boys surpassing during college life many of the well-prepared. In the freedom of college-life differences between individuals in respect to ambition, strength of will, physical and mental alertness, and habits created by luxury on the one hand, or poverty on the other, produce much greater effect than they do among boys who are under constant observation and pressure at school...
...extra work on men just before the examination time is a great injustice to them, and a hindrance to whatever preparation they may be making for the examinations. Instructors ought to be very careful before they decide to do this. Extra work can but have a discouraging effect on the men who are hard pressed enough anyhow at this time, and it may make a serious difference with their standing if they take sufficient time from their preparation to do the work well, as the instructors of course desire. There is no justice in such a proceeding to commend...
...revised tabular view for freshmen has been posted on the bulletin boards. It will go into effect today...
...these others must be those already acquainted with the wide field of general knowledge-educated educators. From this point of view elective studies have properly no place in the college course; they are an infusion of the university idea into the college, and they have the decidedly bad effect of encouraging the American tendency to 'save time' by crowding general education into fewer and fewer years so as to put the boy 'at his work' at the earliest age possible. It is a heritage from the old idea that to become a good merchant a boy must...