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...returns a skating match for different distances be arranged, to be held on Fresh Pond or some other convenient locality, so that Harvard's runners and others may have an opportunity to test their speed on ice and to establish a college record. The Athletic Association might consider the plan, and, if deemed advisable, offer prizes for the winners...
...whole plan is a very strong method of favoring "specialists." The man who takes a general course suffers, from the fact that he did not devote himself more to one subject. It is well enough to encourage men to pursue a special line of study, but to give a man the same rank for eighty-five per cent. in eighteen hours that another man gets for forty-two hours of general work is too much of an incentive...
...plan seems to be very similar to the one in vogue at Harvard, although there are quite a number of points of difference, and a comparison between the two systems may be of interest. The honors at graduation are of two classes, i. e., "honors for general excellence" and "honors in special subjects." The "honors for general excellence" correspond in a measure to our degrees "with distinctions...
...This is the true ground of objecting to games with Dartmouth and Amherst. Without them we can have better and more interesting games, and can obtain them at greatly reduced expense. There is a strong tendency at present to curtail college expenditures for athletics, and this seems a good plan to assist it. It is no argument at all to say that the mere fact that a nine fails to win victories is a reason for excluding it from the league. Some nine must always be at the foot of the list. But with all respect for Dartmouth and Amherst...
...wise one. Courses are conducted differently by different instructors, and it would be manifestly impracticable to attempt to fix any method of assigning the marks for the year which should be binding upon all. Each instructor, however, can do much toward removing the objectionable features of the present plan by removing the veil which in so many cases enshrouds the assignment of marks, and telling to his section the exact principle upon which he proceeds. One instructor has very kindly taken this course, and the result is that much of the uncertainty which ordinarily worries a man with regard...