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...following is the list of sports at the coming winter meetings at Yale: Vaulting, horizontal bar, rope climbing, standing high jump, running high jump, high kick, fencing; wrestling-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; boxing-heavy, middle, light and feather-weight; tug-of-war, (600 lbs. limit...
Second.-The rank list is made up from the marks of each student in four elective courses. No account is made of any other elective which he may have taken, even though he has done as faithful work in an extra as in his regular courses. Every hour not devoted to the required four electives, however well spent in other courses, must tend to lower the student's rank. He is thus discouraged from taking any more electives than the number absolutely necessary for his degree...
Second.-This evil can be avoided only by considering, in making up the rank list, amount of work, as well as proficiency. Let the general rank list be made up by averaging two rank lists: one, the present list, representing proficiency; the other, representing amount of work, made up as follows. Find for each student the values of the electives in which he has received a certain per cent. (By fixing this per cent. at 60, 70, or 80, the tendency to superficial work could be repressed.) Arrange the students in the order of superiority, and assign to each position...
These three reforms in the ranking system would change the whole influence of the rank list. Collegiate distinction would count, as it should, as an encouragement to the very best work...
About twenty years ago petrography or lithology, the study of the structure of rocks, was added to our list of sciences. Harvard, almost alone among American colleges, has paid attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...