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...candidates for the Columbia University and freshman crews have now been in training for three weeks. Strict training will not begin until after the semi-annual examinations. The work this year is to be conducted on much the same plan as it was last year; the only difference being that more attention will be paid to running than was then. The crews have abandoned the old gymnasium which was not large enough for their use and are now practicing in Wood's Gymnasium, hired especially for the purpose. This arrangement not only gives the boating men more room, but allows...
...happenings than the great majority of students. To remedy this defect in our education and to give men a clear understanding of those events which soon pass into history, it has been proposed by some that a course in contemporaneous history should be given. The great objection to this plan, which naturally arises, is the folly of attempting to do in this way just what the newspapers are every day doing. The lecturer must depend upon the paper for his knowledge, and his work would be little more than a culling of news from its columns, something, it might...
...generally conceded that the evils of our marking system can only be remedied by supplanting percentages by a plan of ranking by classes, e.g. "excellent," "very good," "good," etc., as is the custom in German High schools. The great difficulty in this innovation lies in the matter of scholarships. If our professors have not sufficient insight to be able to judge of the merits of the students taking their courses, without having recourse to the percentage system, why let them keep it up for those men who are trying for scholarships. But against this it would be urged that...
...faculty and the conference committee put their heads together in wise deliberation for weeks and months to come, they will have to decide on this or some very similar plan at the end of all their labors...
Moreover, the plan of the prescribed themes and forensics has been so arranged that the students as a whole do more and better work in this branch. Then, too, electives have been added, not only in literature, but in composition. All these reforms have acted directly upon our college papers by bettering them...