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...system say that the societies tend to keep the non-society men from coming back to commencements and other reunions after graduation. The writer has collected statistics from the secretaries of several leading American colleges, and these show that the number of graduates at the Yale commencements is larger relatively than at any other college. This is attributed to the enthusiasm and strong class feeling, which the societies assisted in forming and keeping alive. The discussion concludes as follows: The advantages of the societies could not probably be fully appreciated by any except their members. The societies gather together representative...
...average newly-fledged graduate has only to breast the larger world out-side his college walls to find that there is astonishingly little of all he thought he knew that can at once be turned to practical account. He soon realizes that a degree is to be valued for what it helps him to do, rather than for its prestige...
...plan of giving second prizes at the remaining winter meetings in any events where more than four men contest will, we hope, induce a still larger number of men to enter. Where, as is often the case, the probable winner is known beforehand, an inducement for which the rest of the men may strive will be likely to bring about the desired end. The officers of the H. A. A. are certainly doing all in their power to make the remaining meetings the best we have yet seen...
...laboratory courses, the expenses for running the laboratory, such as gas, water, salaries of janitors, etc., are much larger than the expense incurred in carrying on a course in any other part of the college. The corporation, therefore, thought it necessary to charge the student who elects a laboratory course more than one who takes any other course. Just so much money is allowed the laboratory for running expenses as is deemed sufficient, according to the cost of running other buildings in the university. The fee of $15 which is charged each year is to cover the cost of reagents...
...attendance during the first year was much larger than during the second, which the report says "was to be expected, since opportunities for systematic study at Athens under skilled direction was then offered for the first time to American students, and immediately attracted to the school pupils who have subsequently returned to other parts of Europe and to America for the completion of their studies. There is good reason to believe that a number of competent students will be in attendance at the school during the coming year...