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...truth were known, those who create this disturbance would be found to be some who attend the lectures merely because they are obliged to, who are not desirous to understand them, and who expect to barely pass the examination by pure cramming. Rather than have the whole class suffer for the misconduct of two or three boyish, thoughtless members, they should be exposed...
THERE is a type of man that must be well known to every one who has ever been long at Harvard, for if human nature is as unchangeable as the philosophers would have us believe, this type has had its representatives in every class, ay, in every section, since the founding of the old University...
...drop out, either succeed or fail. Hence he does not "cram" for an examination with matter which he will throw away afterward, but studies with a view to permanent results. In short, he is free to be what his own talents and energy may make him. The result is known. It has made a knowledge of the German language indispensable to men of letters. It will be many years before Harvard can have a system like the German, with its gymnasia, that send forth men fully trained for a higher education, and its professors, who mould the thought...
...Marking System" is what the best authorities have been pleased to call the method of marking now existing at Harvard; but even to the recently initiated this word "system" must seem a keen bit of sarcasm. The great errors and injuries of the present system are so well known that any consideration of them on our part is unnecessary. We trust, however, that we shall not seem too presumptuous if we venture to suggest a remedy. It certainly requires no great ability to compare the results of established systems with the evils of the vacillating method in use here...
...Williams, Trinity, Dartmouth, and Amherst. The replies were not encouraging. Brown and Amherst decline, Dartmouth and Bowdoin have not been heard from, and Trinity and Williams agreed to meet Wesleyan at a convention which was held at Springfield on March 27. What decision was arrived at is not yet known, but it is to be hoped that a race may be arranged between these three colleges...