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There will be no more special reports in History 13 until after the mid-years...
...which Professor Ladd has ignored. The marks of Yale students depend to a greater degree on regularity at lectures and recitations, than do the marks of Harvard students. The latter can cut lectures, and actually gain in standing thereby. Oftentimes a student is so pressed in one course with special work that he receives ultimate benefit by neglecting his other course for a day or two. A friend's notes or diligent reading can make the omission good. In these cases, non-attendance shows, not absence from the post of duty, but concentrated work in some other department. Again...
...leading them into specialties. The causes for the change from the old to the new, have been fears, nay even realizations, of shallowness, of knowledge gained from the many prescribed elementary courses. The elective system seems especially adapted to promote the interests of higher education. Students are led to special subjects with a view peculiar and fitted to each one's nature. Professor Ladd is earnest and sincere in his views, although we may differ with him yet we give him credit for his careful argument...
...Special attention is called to the fact that, by the regulations, no overdue theme will be accepted, unless the writer satisfies the Dean that his failure to present it at the appointed time was due to serious illness or unavoidable hindrance...
...executive committee of the Yale Boat Club to appoint a committee of two, who should meet a similar committee from Harvard and revise the rules governing the Harvard-Yale races. The old agreement between Harvard and Yale, it will be remembered, prevented from rowing in the races all special students and students whose names did not appear in the catalogue as trying for a degree. By this agreement, Mr. R. A. F. Penrose, the stroke, came very near being deprived of his seat in the boat last June. A revision of the old rules was necessary...