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...have a free choice. In the first place he must recollect that he has but three years in which to take these courses, and that he must not overload himself if he wishes to gain the greatest possible amount of advantage from each course. Therefore he is obliged to "weed out" the less desirable courses until he has left the amount of work he thinks he can do with profit in three years. This is one consideration in choosing electives. Another and an equally important consideration is the arrangement in the groups for examinations. Of course where there...
...first ten of the Institute from '85 are: McCook, Atkinson, Chanler, J. E. Thayer, O. S. Howard, French, Weed, Storrow, Winthrop, Delano...
...WEED has been appointed manager of the Freshman Crew...
Under the sea-weed canopied...
THERE is a growing tendency among certain of the professors to weed out a large number of the men who take their elective by giving very low marks and discouraging any who wish to join after the term begins. This usually happens in an elective which, since it meets the wants of a great many students, is naturally popular; but there is no reason why a professor should mark fifteen or twenty per cent below the average for the express purpose of lightening his own work. This course of action seems to suggest - what is elsewhere apparent - that some...