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...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 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...
...importance of some different regulation in regard to the training of the men. Very little encouragement is offered to our track athletes by the college at large. They are obliged to train at their own expense, and unless they win their events they reap very little honor for their labor. The difficulties with which they have been compelled to contend this year have been greater than ever before. In the absence of a regular trainer, men who wish to compete in any events have been compelled to rely on what instruction and training they could obtain from their friends...
...very important that he should choose the courses for which be is best suited, and in which he is most interested. The bare title of each course as it appears in the elective pamphlet gives him but little satisfaction. The pamphlet that have been prepared by students labor under the disadvantage that they are not authoritative. Besides this they have the appearance of being compiled for the purpose of telling how many hour examinations each instructor requires, and as an attempt to solve that great problem of modern times - the marking system - rather than as a legitimate guide...
...country of professors who are either fourth-rate men, for whom their wretched salaries are full remuneration, or first-rate men toiling for what barely keeps body and soul together, and places them, in an intensely mercantile community, in humiliating contrast with men of nearly every occupation above unskilled labor...
...lecture tonight by Mr. Walter H. Page should be largely attended. The subject is one with which every practical man should be acquainted, as the problem in regard to labor in the South and the manufacturing and social future of that portion of the country is to be one of the important questions of the coming years. Mr. Page is both a keen observer and an able lecturer, so that the subject cannot fail to be presented in an interesting form...