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JUNIOR THEMES.Junior theme III will be due on Tuesday, Dec. 22. Subject: A Narrative...
Another meeting of the Conference has been held, and the result can be summed up in the one word discussion. A mass of information has been received, which throws much light upon the subject of discussion, - the marking system; but beyond this one accomplishment, nothing has been done. This seems unfortunate. The marking system in our college is unfitted for the elective system. It works injustice to the students, encourages an unscholar-like tendency to work for marks, and prevents the establishment of high motives for study. Students are dwarfed by it, to the low stature of grinds for marks...
...applied to a collegiate education. Many college courses have no end in view beyond charging the mind of the student with a mass of facts more or less interesting and useful, but undeniably lacking in the element of brain culture. The proper building of a brain is still a subject of discussion. But that the system of education in vogue among the colleges throughout the land is highly defective, is proved by the success of the reforms inaugurated by Harvard, which declare as their basis the determination of the student to acquire at a university that knowledge and self-dependence...
...Fields in Switzerland. Special subject: The Mt. Rosa District. Prof. J. P. Cooke, Chemical Lecture Room, Boylston Hall...
...following is taken from a letter in the Evening Post, and is a reply to an earlier communication on the same subject...