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...Extra meeting, Monday, March 31. Ladies' Day. Two-hand vault, running high jump, flying rings, rope climbing, horizontal bar, tumbling; Tug-of-war, Law School vs. winners of the class championship...
...nearly three hours a week for half a year,-a very considerable item in a man's college career. Besides this, they supply the need of those who are willing to devote half a year to some special branch of a subject but are unable to assume the extra work that a half course for a whole year really meant, for the new courses only require one examination...
Second.-The rank list is made up from the marks of each student in four elective courses. No account is made of any other elective which he may have taken, even though he has done as faithful work in an extra as in his regular courses. Every hour not devoted to the required four electives, however well spent in other courses, must tend to lower the student's rank. He is thus discouraged from taking any more electives than the number absolutely necessary for his degree...
...prevent shirking. This plan, with three hours of regular work each week, would not fail to turn out a much stronger and better developed set of men at the end of every year. This addition to the regular curriculum, not being brain work, would be but a slight extra burden and might be made to fill up some of the spare hours between the regular recitations, the gymnasium sections being the same as those for the class room...
...progress. Many men finish their examinations from one to ten days before recitations begin again. To them it would be of great advantage if they could spend some of this spare time in the laboratory. Working out experiments in chemistry is slow work at the best, and any extra time which could be thus devoted to it would lighten the students' labors when he has also to attend recitations. Another class of men have some experiments which they have not completed or wish to perfect, and the time before their particular examination furnishes just the time needed by them...