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...five o'clock the classes will assemble in the yard. The graduates will assemble at the same time, 5.15. The juniors enter the enclosure two by two, followed by the sophomores, freshmen and graduates in order. Each class will keep to the left; the juniors walking around the tree and occupying the northwest corner, and as far as the second window in Holden Chapel. The sophomores will follow, leaving a space of three feet between them and the juniors, and will sit in the south-west corner; and towards the juniors the freshmen will sit next, leaving three feet between...
...would accrue to that college if it were to adopt the Harvard system of preliminary examinations: "Harvard, Yale, and the University of Virginia, have a custom which Princeton would do well to inaugurate. It is the system of partial examinations for entrance. Suppose, for instance, a boy intends to enter Princeton, '89. He is already proficient in some branches, say mathematics. He takes the entrance examination in that subject with '88, gets a certificate stating the fact, and when he comes back to enter with his class, is examined only in those requirements in which he has not yet passed...
...greatest advantage would accrue to the college. There are at Lawrenceville, Morristown, Pennington and other preparatory schools, a number of students who intend to enter Princeton. There are others who intend to go elsewhere, and still a third class who have made no fixed choice. Now, when Tom, who intends to enter Princeton at some future day, comes to be examined in Latin or mathematics, some of his friends who intend to go elsewhere, or who have made no choice, will probably come along. And as they have about the same stand as Tom, they may take a partial examination...
...found young working men spending a year in college in scientific studies, who intended to resume their manual employment after leaving it. Among the New England institutions which describes, the Boston Institute of Technology is prominent. He says: "This institution worthily enjoys a high reputation in America. Its graduates enter into the scientific professions, and the engineering, mining and manufacturing industries without difficulty or delay. I have experienced this in the far West, among the miners, on railway works, in machine shops and in the textile manufactories...
...allowed in the yard after 12 M. on class day; secondly, that between 12 M. and 4 P. M all materials for spreads must be carried in by attendants on foot; thirdly, that between 4 P. M. and 11 P. M. attendants will not be allowed to enter or leave the yard with dishes, ice-cream cans...