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...University delegation will be quartered in Gould Hall, which is considered the most comfortable dormitory at Northfield. There will be a separate large dining room, and the cost of board will be a minimum because all the waiters will be students...
Perhaps the most important justification for a college education is that it does form the best transition from boyhood to manhood, that it gives opportunity for the growth of the maximum of responsibility with the minimum of risk. If, however, supervision on the part of the office is carried beyond a certain point, there is great danger that more harm than good will result. While possibly gaining from better direction of his activities, the undergraduate will inevitably lose in the larger and more vital matter of the development of individual responsibility and initiative...
...them as the one limiting the length of the written test to one hour, are mere administrative regulations of no great significance. That a student should be allowed only one trial at the written examination seems a reasonable concession. For anyone who fails in this test after a minimum of two attempts at the oral quiz plus half a year of the tutorial course hardly deserves to be petted further...
...year by the preparatory school whose scholars do best in the University entrance examinations. No detailed rules have been drawn up except that the award will be based on the number of names on the honor list in proportion to the number of candidates from the school (with a minimum of five), so that small schools, provided they send five or more pupils to be examined, will have as good a chance as the larger schools...
...differences exist between courses, the stiffening up of the office requirements can only result in over-emphasizing the advantages of the easier courses. Many men are of course, not influenced in their choice of courses by the amount of work; but these are not the men for whom the minimum requirements are being raised...