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...long list of fines should accompany our term bills! Yet the College records tell us that these punishments were once looked upon in the same light as "privates" and "publics" are now. A century ago such a Christian spirit was manifested by the students that the authorities saw fit to impose a fine of 6d. upon those that came to "meeting before bell-ringing," and the luckless undergraduate who neglected to repeat the sermon was reminded of his inattention by a fine of 9d. A social game of cards cost the players 2s. 6d., as a warning to those...
...also asserted that, by the proposed plan, "two hours, from 4 till 6, are utilized, whereas, by the present system, no one feels like doing anything which resembles work, bodily or mental, from 2 to 4." Will not the boot fit the other leg? If the hours from 2 to 4 are at present wasted, by the proposed plan the hours from 6 to 8 will be lost. Supposing that three hours' work is to be done in the evening, this will be finished, not at 9 or 9.30, but at 11. In regard to the injuriousness of late study...
...RECENT number of the Nation contained an article on "Schools and Scholarship," with direct bearing on the "secondary" school-system - in the schools which undertake to fit boys for college. The preparation which is obtained before entrance to any college has a vital importance on success in college, and materially affects the benefits arising from a collegiate education. Under the present system some men will always find college work comparatively easy, while others will have great difficulty in maintaining a high position in the large classes, now the rule and not the exception in our larger and older Colleges...
...perhaps the larger part of the leading fifth of most classes are from schools of no general reputation. The reason for this lies in the fault of many of the most popular schools in the country. Too many men who enter with honor rely entirely on their fit, and, feeling for the first few months superior in knowledge to their "country cousins," as in the fable of the hare and tortoise, suddenly find themselves distanced...
...every passage, - that arma in Arma virumque cano means arms, but never realize but that it must mean arms everywhere; finally, take down translations given by instructors in class as so many isolated facts, and, may we add, believe implicitly in Harkness's Grammar. They get a good fit, as it is commonly regarded; that is, they enter well: the long hours given to parsing, and the little world of rules carefully committed to memory, enable them to manage the classics well enough, and with the use of ponies, which many think now legitimately open to them, for a year...