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THAT target for the arrows of the aggrieved student, the marking system, (pardon me for mentioning it!) that contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People...
MICHIGAN University has 1,367 students, - the largest number of any school in the country. Harvard, with 1,350, and Yale, with 753, rank next in the number enrolled...
With proper management, such an organization would become a permanent and prominent feature of Harvard, and might some day gain celebrity as a training-school for future legislators...
...electives must be devoted to it. But there is here an excellent opportunity to give a general view of the whole subject, discussing only the important points, and the relations of one period to another. The general student would undoubtedly be interested in knowing the characteristics of each school of painting or sculpture, although he might never have the time nor the facility for going deeper. Such a course as this was given some years ago in the School of Fine Arts, at Paris, by M. Taine, and any one who is acquainted with his lectures will appreciate the advantages...
...understand that a proposition has been laid before the authorities which involves a radical change in the appointment of proctors. All members of a professional school are to be deemed ineligible, and only those who are pursuing some special course of study will be allowed to hold a proctorship. While agreeing that a change for the better can be made, we hope that the plan proposed, if we are rightly informed as to its aim, will not be adopted, because of its unjust discrimination. Men who have gone through college on scholarships and who enter the Law School, for example...