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...easily furnished now than they will be later, and it seems as if somebody should take the responsibility of action in the matter. Whether the responsibility lies with any one individual or organization, or whether each organization is expected to furnish its own pictures and trophies we do not know. The Athletic Association have been careful about putting in their records, but nothing of importance in addition to these is on exhibition. We would suggest the advisability of putting the responsibility for the care and furnishing the room upon some one organization; and probably the Athletic Association...
Without desiring to be impertinently suggestive to those who know their duty, it would perhaps be a good thing as the mid-years approach, to draw up a list of the different characteristics of that season that seem to need a remedy. There will be no use grumbling after the occasion has passed, and the best time for mentioning the subject is just before the preparations are made by the authorities...
...first place, the examination rooms have been cold. I do not think this can be remedied merely by making a fire and opening the registers at six o'clock in the morning. I am not a sexton, but I know that in well-regulated churches the sexton starts the furnace fire on Saturday, and often on Friday. In this way not only is the room sure to be warm, but the heat by that time can be adjusted to the right temperature. In buildings like Massachusetts and University, rarely used until examination time, this previsional care is almost absolutely necessary...
...them discard squeaky boots. Common sense alone ought to keep them from walking about, except to answer inquiries, and they can watch us just as well from one end or one side of the room, or from the middle, if they will only stay there. A proctor ought to know before he comes to an examination whether his boots creak or not; if they do, he can get a pair of felt slippers for sixty-five cents. Or if he sits down, as he ought to, he can do all his necessary walking in stocking-feet...
...feels after having completed his papers as to how near the truth he approximated in his answers. We do not refer to the custom some instructors have of not giving marks, as this needs no comment. But a mark alone is always unsatisfactory enough if the man does not know in what his book is weak. The only way to have examinations do any good besides fixing, though with a delightful degree of uncertainty, his rank, is for the instructor to return to every student his blue-book with corrections. This may entail a little more labor on the instructor...