Word: systemizer
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...system as it now stands is very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient...
...which some men try to put their oars in place, and by the general lack of concerted work. Would it not be well for the captains of the different crews to pay more attention to the management of the boats while out of the water? If there were more system about it, not only would there be a saving of time, but it would look much better...
...records. By it, not only the champions of the College, but the champions of each class will be given due prominence; and to win his class-championship should be incentive enough for any one to do his best, even if he cannot bear away the highest prize. A system similar to this has largely contributed to the success of the English University athletes. There, each of the more important colleges holds a preliminary meeting, and the winners then compete for the University championship. The principle which has gained ground here of late, in athletics, o making the contests class matters...
...tortured, we cannot, however, see how this early announcement will make preparation materially easier. It is useless to attempt to take time needed for term work or for recreation in order to prepare for examinations to come in two months, or even in one month. Under our system, work for examinations can hardly be begun more than two weeks beforehand; - seldom then, without neglecting something else, perhaps of more real importance. It was found necessary last year to place the electives in thirteen groups. We suggest that the order and dates of the examination groups be definitively settled and announced...
...conditioned in Mathematics than in any other study, we infer that Mathematics are made disproportionately difficult. Indeed, it is questionable whether Analytics, for instance, will ever be of practical use to nine men out of every ten who are obliged to study them. We therefore regard the present system of requiring additional study in them as unreasonable, and should advocate deferring a portion of the Freshman Mathematical work until the Sophomore year, as there seems to be no hope of its being made optional...