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...utterly powerless. If more strict police measures are adopted the evil will be stimulated. Is there another way than by interference on the part of students themselves? Would not a trial of offenders by their own mates so fortify the sentiment that should prevail, that a student would think no more of cribbing, even for forty or fifty per cent., than he would of making a plan for hazing? This is a question for students to consider, and this communication is written to ask for opinion either pro or con. There are objections in matters of detail...
...true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully awake to the important questions of the day. And there is no better way to waken us than to get us to think upon such matters for ourselves; lectures move us comparatively little, because we hear them passively; but if some such incentive as a prize stirs us thoroughly, we will be very likely to hold our interest even to the future. Accordingly, we hope that attention to the subject of Civil Service Reform...
...reason why it should not provide some school to prepare men for the civil service. For in these time of peace, a capable administration of the common public business is of as much importance to the nation, as skilfull management of its armies and navies. Moreover, we think that a university which educates men for law or medicine is but widening its usefulness when it founds a school to drill men for public life. But though such work could best be carried on at Washington it does not at present seem likely that it will be. Accordingly, we hope...
...advocates of the so called class system would stop to think a moment, they must see that their theory is nothing but a percentage scale, graced with new titles, in which the discriminations are large units instead of small ones. Why do they stop with three or four divisions? Why not go a step further and make one division, viz: "passed"; or even still further and make no division at all? The fallacy of their argument lies in the fact that they simply change the robe of the evil instead of the evil itself. The burden of the examination still...
Therefore, if, instead of modifying the marking, the examinations themselves were modified, a relief would be felt at once. If, instead of two long examinations a year, several short ones were given and their results averaged, I think a step would be taken in the right direction, for then the ground gone over would be less, and the labor of preparation decreased, which is the point at which we are aiming...