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...more varied. They read, study, talk and do any thing they may please, until some few are selected and made an example of. Then there is a lull for a few days, but soon the disorder becomes worse than ever. The rules in regard to attendance are very strict. No liberty whatever is allowed. Every student must be in chapel every morning. If he is not, a deduction is made from his average, unless he has a good excuse. The excuses required are the same as those for absence from lecture or recitation. The only positive ones are sickness...
...course the members of the second nine will have to keep in some kind of training, as any one of them will be liable to be called on to fill a vacancy on the university nine at any time. The work, however, will not be as strict as that of the university nine and so men may be induced to play in it who would not be willing to undergo a more thorough course of training...
...will never do for freshmen oarsmen to put off going into strict training until late in the year; not only do they injure their effectiveness while not in training, but they are also apt not to begin training at all, continuing their irregular habits up to the very day of the race...
...crew that we must look for men to fill places in the university, which will soon be vacated by members of the present junior and senior classes. Eighty-six has the right material in her crew, but the members must remember that muscle will avail nothing unless accompanied by strict training...
...which "the student prepares himself on the prescribed lesson, but at the appointed hour does not recite it. On the contrary, the professor recites - that is, he goes over it and elucidates it, making it fully comprehensible for the dullest." At the conclusion of each month a strict examination is given on the work gone over during the month. The plan is said to meet with much favor both with the faculty and students. The plan seems to be very similar to the one pursued by most of the instructors at Harvard, supplemented by numerous hour examinations...