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...encounter-and the number is by no means a small one-none can be said to give him more trouble and hard labor than that of studying understandingly and well amid the thousand and one pleasures and distractions that surround him. Study which is such a hard task for a school boy, becomes well nigh impossible to the college student who is no longer aided and guided by the walls of his home and the close scrutiny of his parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither...
...last yard concert, to keep the mucker element at a proper distance, are but the beginnings of an action still more stringent and effective. A little energy and firmness, would very soon teach the objectionable young mucker that his place is not in the yard, and his task not to make himself as disagreeable, and everybody else as uncomfortable, as possible. Perhaps a good strong policeman, with a stronger "billy," would be as effective as anything else. But a policeman could not attain complete success, if he had not the co-operation of the students. Much more, then...
...hard time during the cramming period, and, what is more, they receive little sympathy from their more fortunate classmates. The classics are frequently worked up by groups of men in the same class. Sometimes a "pony boy" is hired, who, with his translation in hand, drones out his task, while his hearers, with eyes glued upon their text-books, follow him line for line, interrupting occasionally to demand a repetition of some difficult passage...
...have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest of his task is easy. He picks up the list of questions and with the aid of his cribs answers such of them as he can, and when the examination is ended hands in his answers to the waiting professors and coolly carries out of the hall all the evidence of his guile...
...only manner in which he can gain a knowledge of such studies, is by outside reading. The establishment of courses of summer reading should be made general throughout the college. The effectiveness of the present system of study would be enormously increased while conforming to the convenience and task of all. The students would by this means be saved from the too common aimless reading of leisure moments, and would have their minds directed into a channel which would repay every effort, at the same time that it would relieve the harsher strain of studies more peculiarly collegiate in their...