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...student understands a subject himself, there is no danger of appearing ridiculous at the blackboard. It is true that comparatively few students take mathematics after the Freshman year. The cause, as it seems to me, is this: students come to college with a worse fit in mathematics, as a general thing, than any other subject, and the struggles against conditions in the Freshman year, in which too much mathematics is crowded, creates no sympathy for cosines and asymptotes. The fault, therefore, is primarily in the fitting schools. Having had the same "misfortune" as the writer in the Echo...
...what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general word would scarcely have had time to spring up and die since 1856. The best of our original words is doggy, a very expressive term, which - with the noun dog, derived from it - is almost unknown out of Cambridge...
...only to persons not in college. The collegiate rowdy is known as a scrub, which I think is another word originated here, though undoubtedly drawn from English sources. At Columbia a scrub is dubbed a ploot, a prune, or a plum. At Yale a peculiarly suggestive phrase, slum, is general...
...recent report the President has distinctly opposed the custom of keeping Saturday as a half-holiday, for these reasons: "Instructors and students can have each one leisure afternoon, without a general suspension of work; a student's working-time is greatly reduced by spending Saturday afternoons and Sundays at home; the time thus lost should be spent in reading, writing, and intellectual conversation." With the highest respect for the President's opinions, there is yet some ground for dissent...
...first place, it is doubtful if many instructors and students find unemployed afternoons in the busy time from Monday to Friday, - always supposing that the student is ambitious to hold an honorable position in his studies. Granted unlimited leisure, the need of a general holiday is still urgent; else what opportunities exist to witness base-ball and football games, and various other athletic sports? Absence from recitation would be the rule and not the exception on such occasions...