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...found, and some members of the Faculty are far slower than others to relinquish the idea of an authority that is absolute. But within the past seven or eight years a great change has taken place and the bond of sympathy between the instructors and the students has grown much stronger. This result has been brought about by several causes. The creation of a board of freshman advisers has had the effect of making the first year men feel that the members of the Faculty are capable of a sympathetic understanding of the difficulties which perplex the new-comer...
...themselves, is a thing to be frowned down. But so long as examinations are the only means of discovering how faithfully a student has performed the work assigned to him, just so long will every one of us find it necessary to clear his memory on points which have grown hazy, and the sluggard will try to do three months' work in three days...
...evidence. In the first place the Greeks had no distinctive national faith, and there was a tendency of the cults to split up, in the absence of any single sanctuary, or great priestly order. Then there was no cultus-literature, though materials out of which canonical collections might have grown were numerous. Lastly the Greek religion was composed of various elements, and by writers of that time the doctrine of immortality was ascribed to foreign influences...
...interesting features of the Law School, and one which has proved of considerable value to the students is the law clubs. These clubs have existed for several years, and have grown gradually until they are now recognized by the Faculty as forming an important part of the students' training in law. There were nine Law Clubs last year, but the aim and method of procedure is the same in all of them, and is briefly as follows...
...method of running the clubs. Their purpose is to give the men practice in working up a point of law and in arguing a case just as they would before a supreme court. The interest taken in these clubs is very great, and as the School has grown larger the clubs have increased in number. Last year there were nine. This year the class of first year men is so large that over half of them are not able to get into any club, so there has been a general movement among the new men to form several first year...