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...proposed to make the studies of the junior and senior years at Cornell almost wholly elective in the general courses...
Some trouble has been caused by the failure of members to ask for ordered goods when paying for something which they had ordered: If books or other articles be sold to them from the general stock while their ordered goods are reserved for them till the time of sale is past, the society loses...
Cups for prizes and medals for those breaking the Harvard record will be given as usual. The general excellence contest will include the same events as last year; parallel bars, horizontal bar, two-hand vault, running high jump, standing high jump, and flying rings. In addition to these class flags will be awarded to the class winning the greatest number of first prizes in the first three meetings. In case of a tie, second places will count. In sparring and wrestling, first prizes only will count. The tug-of-war will count as but one event in this contest. Entries...
Second.-This evil can be avoided only by considering, in making up the rank list, amount of work, as well as proficiency. Let the general rank list be made up by averaging two rank lists: one, the present list, representing proficiency; the other, representing amount of work, made up as follows. Find for each student the values of the electives in which he has received a certain per cent. (By fixing this per cent. at 60, 70, or 80, the tendency to superficial work could be repressed.) Arrange the students in the order of superiority, and assign to each position...
...course of a reply to an address from McGill University recently, the governor-general of Canada stated that he was struck by the obvious desire of the authorities to spread their advantages as widely as possible over Canada; not to make them the privilege of the few and wealthy. In this way they were not following the old English universities, but those which had left on the Scottish character an impress which was ineffaceable, and which had contributed to place Scotsmen in the foremost place in every country they visited. He was also struck by the elasticity of their system...