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...rules governing the instructors of the university is that no examination shall extend beyond three hours. The corporation wisely foresaw that, if no such restriction were enacted, students would be constantly treated with the utmost inconsideration by some professors whose sole aim in examinations is not to discover what the student may know, but to impress on him how absolutely little knowledge of the subject he possesses. The more he succeeds in convincing the student that he is groping in absolute ignorance, the more satisfaction does he seem to take unto himself. This rule the authorities have enacted...
...argument to demonstrate that the knowledge of the chief modern languages is a primal requisite; for, while from a purely practical standpoint it matters comparatively little to the banker, broker or merchant whether he has read Homer, or pursued a course in calculus, it is a thing of the utmost moment to him to have acquired a sound practical knowledge of French and German. Hence our first aim has been to meet the needs of exactly this class, and, with this in view, carefully graded four-year courses have been organized, which shall take men just where they are found...
...support and continuance, is more than doubtful. We do not believe there are any in the college who would favor the establishment of such a system of compulsion if it were not already in rogue, and we think there are really very few who favor its continuance. The utmost liberty could do no harm. It is quite certain that now after it has been proved that chapel exercises can be made interesting and profitable to many, if compulsory attendance were abolished voluntary attendance would still be large. It is greatly to be hoped that the corporation will see their...
...Lowells, resulting in a tie, indicates that the college of Rhode Island has a nine not much inferior to the best. It is certainly more desirable for the interest in base-ball in all the colleges that the nines are to be thus more evenly matched than formerly. The utmost exertion will be required for any nine that takes the pennant. It seems quite probable that victory in every game will belong to that nine which works hardest for it. We haven't the least hesitation in saying that Yale's chances are not a whit better than are those...
...exactly explain the phenomenon, but there exists, we think, a curious epidemic in some of the Western colleges-a mental malady which seems most frequently to result in the strange delusion on the part of the sufferer that he is being abused by somebody or other, and that the utmost vigor and rigor on his part is called for to repel all attacks. A curious mania for "strong writing" seems always to be co-existent in the college papers of the institutions where this sad disorder flourishes. We cannot affect to explain this fact either. For example there...