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That note taking is an important element of study is shown by the fact that some of the instructors in college examine the note books of those in their sections, and assign marks which are made to count a certain percentage of the year's total. Just now important an element of study note taking is, perhaps it is hard to say. Doubtless the instructor regards a good note-book in a certain degree as an index of good attendance, and good work. The value to the student is here seen in the mark that he gets. But marks cannot...
...collegiate foot-ball altogether. It is very improbable that a game which involves violent personal collision between opposing players can ever be made a good inter-collegiate game. None of the popular games or contests which have proved long-lived and respectable, like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between contestants. Boxing and wrestling, which do require such personal collision, are very apt to degenerate as foot-ball has done. An ill effect of some of the inter-collegiate contests is their tendency...
...marking system is to be introduced at Princeton, by which the students will be arranged in groups, and in determining the standing of the men, the difficulty of the subject will be taken into consideration, so that a man who receives a mark of 90 in a difficult subject, may stand higher than a man who receives a mark of 95 in an easy study...
President Eliot, commenting, in his last report on the brutality of foot ball, says, "None of the popular games or contests which have proved long lived and respectable, (The italics are our own.) like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding...
...short, some such instruction as we ask, would have a definite effect toward elevating the literary tone of the college in no small degree. A man could then have a definite aim in writting: his only reward would not be a few cabalistic signs, and a small mark,-the usual result of the present system. He would be able to work to advantage, for he would be working intelligently. And we are strongly inclined to believe that there is not so much spare intelligence in the college that it can afford generously to throw away a possible chance to work...