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...summary of the middle class also seems to indicate that Exeter is becoming almost as much a fitting school for Yale as for Harvard. These figures, however, can by no means be deemed final, as many men change in their last year...
...President Eliot's report there are some interesting statistics about men taking second-year and final honors. The number of men who take second-year and final honors does not increase with the growth of the college. The report contains several figures of which a few may serve to show the general drift that students are taking in regard to honors. Since 1881 the yearly average of both second-year and final honors has been a trifle over 24. The number of men taking second-year honors for the last four years has been 19, 18, 27, and 19. More...
...decreasing popularity of second-year and final honors may be due to the existence of these more popular degrees with distinction; but it also points to a tendency in college students to devote their energies less to specializing than to general education. The President states that the Faculty are in doubt about the expediency of men trying for honors, except in cases where such students intend to teach...
...extra work, three taking 18.9 courses, and one taking 19.4. The student last mentioned took honorable mention in three subjects and a degree magna cum laude. Of the other three, one took a degree magna cum laude, and two summa cum laude; one of them took second-year and final honors, and one took highest honors. Out of all ten men who graduated in three years, three took degrees summa cum laude, three magna cum laude, one cum laude, one merely honorable mention, and two no distinction. Would it not be well for advocates of a three years course...
...number of persons who take second year and final honors does not increase, but diminishes relatively to the number of students. The natural inference is that very few students wish to specialize, or that the requirements for honors are unreasonable. Even in the Faculty there are two opinions as to the advisability of seeking honors except by young men who intend to teach...