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...college will be pleased to learn that there is now but little prospect of a change in the business management of the Co-operative Society for the coming fiscal year, except that more assistance will be obtained. The general business system will be improved, and delays in filling orders will be obviated to a greater extent than in the past. Also some changes for the better will be made in the list of affiliated tradesmen. The necessary condition for the realization of general improvement, however, is the hearty support of all connected with the university by their becoming members early...
...request of several of the students Dr. Laughlin has consented to postpone his lecture upon "The Sub-Treasury System" until sometime after the semis...
...Stanley Hall's last lecture on "Pedagogy," the prevalent system of crowding the mind of the scholar and college student with a mass of ideas for the special purpose of passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated...
...athletic contests afford an excellent chance for the specialist to display his abilities, and only specialists enter them. In their case the entire energy of the system has been concentrated on the development of special powers, and every thing else is set aside as useless. This is the great objection to athletic exercises as they are at present conducted. Symmetry of development is never thought of, nor is it ever acquired by exclusive reliance upon any of our popular sports. Indeed, we would venture to select from any group of recognized athletes the oarsmen, the ball-players and the gymnasts...
...evident, too, that the members of college crews and ball nines are not in any proper sense representatives of the physical condition of the average students in their respective institutions. The bane of American college life today is the spirit of prize-getting which underlies and inspires the entire system. It is equally powerful in every department of education. It utterly destroys harmony of development. It unduly cultivates a student's powers in one direction, and dwarfs and stunts his growth in every other. The valedictorian has no time for exercise, or is too weary to take it; the champion...