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...unpopularity of Mathematics can be largely accounted for by the excessive difficulty which it presents under the present system of instruction. In the first place, the lectures are not made clear enough. The instructors pass on from point to point with such rapidity that it is often impossible to take intelligible notes. The student has little or no opportunity to ask questions, and is left to work out obscure points by himself. So, until an examination reveals the fact, the instructor never knows whether the student understands the subject or not. Again, too much attention is given to the theoretical...
...made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke...
...Athletic Association on a footing equal to that of any college in the country. If men are to be induced to forego the pleasures of their Sybarite existence rather by the value of the prize than by the honor of winning the contest (and we fear they too often are), the association undoubtedly would do all in their power to afford the necessary incentive, in the hope of bettering a record which it is too true is only very mediocre...
Again there are some offices (such as poet and chorister, for instance), for which there is often no competition, common consent indicating who shall be the incumbent. In such cases as the two just mentioned, the section that these offices naturally fall to should consider such offices as a constituent part of their representation...
...willing to learn with patience the technicalities, and is willing to submit to those more experienced than himself, he will find that a college education will greatly aid him to rise in a profession whose heights must be gained by climbing, and whose approaches are often guarded by unlettered men who act with the true spirit of the dog in the manger...