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JUNIOR THEMES.Mr. Drennan's Section. Theme IV. is due from section 2 (Allen to Lane) today. Subjects : 1, The Present State of the Irish Land Question ; 2, Froude's Mary Stuart Compared with Lingard's ; 3, The Skylark in English Literature ; 4, Statement of the Aims and Principles of the so-called "Esthetes...
...than they were then. In England, examinations have become the main thing and practically control the teaching, although the true view of them would rather be that they should exist as a test of teaching. The examinations, though very old, had become purely formal in the last century: their present importance is comparatively recent. In the Cambridge Triposes, students have heretofore (for a change is now being made) been arranged according to merit. At Oxford the arrangement has been into classes according to merit, the successful men being arranged alphabetically in each class, so that it is not known, unless...
...intend to pass through the whole university course, to come and attend lectures in these subjects. (4) Something should be done to enable the university to help original research, and to increase the number of residents who devote themselves to the pursuit of learning. At present large funds are wasted in what are called "prize-fellowships." Unfortunately the land revenues of the colleges have suffered from the competition of Western America, and money is wanting to carry out some of the most desirable improvements. Broadly considered, the advantages of English university education may be said to consist in the combination...
...Park, the popular comedian, Mr. Nat Goodwin, will present his rather good play of "The Member for Slocum," by George R. Sims, the London playwright...
...merits of a man's work under different instructors, there would be little cause for complaint. But the fact is that all awards are made by an absolute standard of the mere marks obtained, which often enough misrepresent the real comparative worth of different men's work under the present regime...