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...health. But we caution such against the examinations. They have them once a month! The annual examination takes place at the end of the College year, and is conducted before "a disinterested committee of gentlemen of education from various districts of the State." The catalogue does not explain itself, but we suppose they are proctors...
HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...
Very truly yours,WM. AMOS BANCROFT,Captain H. U. B. C.[We said, in the editorial to which Mr. Bancroft refers, that he should explain his views in case he disagreed with our correspondents. Enough is not known concerning the intentions of those who have charge of our rowing interests, and our remarks were made with the intention of furnishing an opportunity for a reply to the criticisms of the graduates who have written to us on the subject. We have every confidence, as we have often said, in the present captain of the crew, and if the exact state...
...Both have their good points and their bad ones. But by all means the most tiresome person is the man who asks questions. Twenty times in the hour he will call out, "Mr. -, I don't see how two and two make four," or, "Please explain the passage on page 63, fifth line from the top." He is entirely regardless of the feelings either of his classmates or of the instructor, whom he interrupts without compunction. One would think that the number of times his advances have been but coldly received would have taught him to be wise...
...different ways in which the standard of scholarship may be raised, there is one class of students whose interests are little considered, and who seem destined to be the scapegoats of every disagreeable required study which is discarded by the other classes. It is hardly necessary to explain that the class referred to are the Freshmen, and we are too well acquainted with the studies with which they are afflicted to make an enumeration necessary. There is, however, one characteristic of the Freshman curriculum which falls so heavily upon many students that its modification would be of great benefit...