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...rather a curious illustration of the barriers which conventional boundary lines may create, that Canada is represented in this college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising...
...perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive to study, and in that direction would not be superior to the present state of affairs. Consequently, the real question is not to find out how we can improve our system of examinations and marks, but rather, how we may get more real work out of students. By this is not meant more frequent attendance at recitations, nor even higher marks on the examinations, but a more thorough, deeper knowledge of his electives on the part of each man. A long step in the right direction...
...melancholy fate of the Charleston College bell naturally leads us to investigate the situation of our own academical tintinnabulum. We have been having some chilly nights of late, and we are forced to believe that the authorities have rather neglected the casus belli, - case of our own bell. If we may be pardoned for interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start...
...Brooks, Jr., the ex-champion Yale sprinter, is stated to be now undergoing a regular course of preparation in the gymnasium, having made up his mind to again represent the college at the annual inter-collegiate meeting. Robert Winston, the college trainer, expresses himself rather enthusiastically regarding the prospects of the Yalencian team for 1886, which will include Sherrill, '89; Bradner, '89; Smith, '86; Luddington, '86; Drvison, Sheffield, S. S., and Magindee, same class. All of these, with orhers, are training systematically. - Cyclist and Athlete...
...twenty years ago, and, as he claims, has continued up to the present time. He says that wholesome, intelligent study has been subverted to a rigorous system of hack questioning and recitation "marks." the object of which has been to show and record what the student does not know, rather than what he does. Attempts to interest the student in his work were then, and are now, rarely made, and through the great importance placed upon recitations pure and simple, the practice of "skinning" in all its forms has grown up. The writer remembers only one course in his whole...