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...forensic work of the year. Some comment was make upon the proper selection of subjects and the mode of treatment of the subject when once selected. Writers are especially advised to consult more than one standard authority and to revise their work with great care. The modern French method of magazine writing may be followed to advantage. This system provides for an introduction and the division of the essay proper under various legitimate, well ordered heads. The exposition should be as concise as possible and ought to exhibit independent thorough study. The speaker properly complained of a desire upon...
...college authorities must be called upon to enforce the discipline which they maintain in other entries of the college buildings. At this very time, when so much is being said of the progress of our university, it is certainly humiliating to descend to a discussion of the best method of dealing with a set of school-boys...
Fines in money were a favorite method of punishment...
Another, and perhaps more feasible way of preventing the evil, would be to open the doors some two or three hours before the games begin. By this method those who care to "come early and avoid the rush." could do so, while those who come late would have fully as good a chance of getting seats as at present, and all the present crowding would be avoided. At all events let there be some improvement in the method of admission to the Winter Meetings...
...marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations and let the students mark themselves. The method, perhaps, sounds revolutionary and visionary; but it can easily be shown to be the best and simplest plan, and one which would prove perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive to study, and in that direction would not be superior to the present state...