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Reading of German stories, (those read in Prof. Cook's section,) with special attention to grammar and vocabulary, 7 to 12 P. M. Saturday; to 5 and 7 to 11 P. M., Monday. Boom furnished. College House...
...feet long, 80 feet wide, covering more than double the space occupied by the old Barrett gymnasium. The main hall consists of a large room 90x57, which will be devoted to class exercises and general drills. Adjoining this room is a smaller, 27x12, which is filled with special apparatus, such as rowing machines, health-lifts, etc. Around the main hall, supported on iron columns, runs the track, twenty-five laps of which make a mile, and the corners can be raised or lowered for fast or slow running, as desired. Under the track, as in the Harvard gymnasium, the greater...
...almost useless to another. Hence, to make a university training more practical, the opportunities for the pursuit of different studies and different branches of studies must be multiplied. This is brought about by the elective system which allows a man to devote himself to one special subject which will be extremely practical to him, but to another anything but practical. Thus the wider the elective system is extended the more practical becomes the education which any college can offer. With the elective system and the various schools connected with our university, such as the Law, Medical and Scientific, together with...
...these advantages and one that will seriously influence hereafter many who wish a college education in its full sense is the good fellowship in the various classes. If as may occur in time, any small-sized college can offer as good instruction and as great an opportunity to study special branches as the great universities, then there will not be a moment of hesitation in the mind of the future collegian as to which he will choose. It has been urged more than once both by authorities and outside observers that the large classes now entering college injure it both...
...have to decide between two courses with full knowledge that to gain the mark he aims at (be it 50, 70, or 90 per. cent.) will acquire two or three times as much work in one course as in the other, and this not depending on his own special fitness for either course, but because of the amount of work which has come to be expected in each course, and the standard of marking which prevails. No blame can be attached to any instructor when the standard of his course has once become established. Naturally enough no one of them...