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...above questions are intended of course, only as a general guide; any other information of interest will be accepted. Every man is earnestly urged to make some reply to these questions, even though not fully, bearing in mind that that the value of the result will be out of all proportion to the labor expended. Men whom I have been unable to see can get their blanks by applying to the janitor of their building, or at my own room...
...daily recitations and examinations. Different professors have different estimates of the comparative values of these marks - one considering recitation and examination marks of equal value, and another counting examination marks of less value than recitation marks, etc. For commencement speakers ten "honor-girls" are chosen, on the basis of "general scholarship, literary ability and good conduct throughout the college course...
...laude; four, magna cum laude, and five, summa cum laude. The aim of this marking system is to make the nominal mark correspond to the actual work done. The six or eight in the class who attain the highest average ranks appear on the commencement stage, thus general ability is encouraged rather than proficiency in special lines of study. The best four men in the class are monitors...
...question at an Oxford examination, "Who was Esau?" "Esop," said he, "was a man who wrote fables, and who sold the copyright to a publisher for a bottle of potash!" Another student was asked to give some account of Wolsey. His reply was unique. "Wolsey was a famous general who fought in the Crimean War, and who, after being decapitated several times, said to Cromwell, 'Ah, if I had only served you as you have served me, I would not have been deserted in my old age!" Occasionally within the precincts of colleges and universities a rich vein of humor...
There is a strange bit of pathos in the thought of this self-exiled wanderer giving half of all he had that the youth of a strange land might be taught. He was the first in this country who gave liberally to further general education, an act the importance of which is now inestimable...