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...July; and at the end of each quarter there is to be a recess of one week. Each quarter consists of two terms of six weeks. No student is to be held to an attendance of more than three quarters, or six terms, in each year, so that the normal academic year is no longer than at other colleges. Each student is to begin his academic year whenever he is ready, and to take his quarter's vacation whenever it suits his convenience. He may even take his two terms of vacation, in different quarters. The opportunity of entering...
...degree are reduced to sixteen courses. - (a). The evil will be remedied better than by any other method proposed. Atl. Mo., LXVI, 163-7, Nat. LI, 107, XLIX, 425. - (b). Existing customs will not be disturbed: Harv. Mo, XIII, 114. - (c). The standard will be normal: Harv. Mo. XI, 135. - (d). More men can gain a college education: Harv. Mo. XI; 135; Atl. Mo., LXVI, 161-3. - (e). Will reduce college term to three years for those men only who need it and otherwise could not get the A. B. degree: Ed. Rev., I, 9. - (f). The general culture...
...course the success of such a scheme depends a great deal on the character of the expert employed. On this point the fast growing tendency towards normal instruction in physical training is coming forward to provide the needed material. The new course in physical training in the Lawrence Scientific School, is intended to meet just this need, to educate men to be scientific instructors in the art of developing the body. Such men as these, college graduates, would be best fitted to carry out in a spirit of pure amateur sport, the trust training the men. There would be little...
...William G. Anderson, director of the Brooklyn normal school of physical education and instructor of gymnastics in the Adelphi academy, has been engaged to take charge of the gymnastic department at Yale...
...next day as the writer had resolved not to flirt with her he feels repentant and ends his Oberammergau journal with the hope that she will "try" to forget him. If the episode is founded on fact one must infer that writer and young lady had more than normal powers of impression and susceptibility. If it is fiction, it commits the sin of improbability. Certain touches of local color are well done...