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...necessary perhaps - or at least some means is necessary to discover the quantity and quality of work done at the first of the year - and as they serve their purpose we must have them. But it seems a mistake to set them so early in the year, for the amount of work done in any course in a month is very small and hardly sufficient to base an examination upon. There are some courses in which this is particularly applicable, and certain professors, moreover, confess that it is difficult in such a short time to set any kind...
...week was held, and in addition, matches will be held with local clubs, such as the Boston Shooting Club and the Cambridge Shooting Club. This is a new feature in the year-yearly arrangements and will add great interest to the work of the club. With this greater amount of interest among candidates and the excellent arrangements made for practice this fall, we ought to make a very good showing in the match with Yale...
...interesting document has just been published by the Committee on Composition and Rhetoric of the Board of Overseers regarding the teaching of English in our public schools; and the amount of work disclosed which our English department undertakes appears stupendous. According to this report 12,000 compositions are read annually in English A and then returned to be rewritten, and 38,000 compositions in the whole department are handed in annually. These compositions consist of most immature thoughts written in an intelligible hand and wholly discreditable to the average age of undergraduates...
...order to find out how much the blame of this state of things lay with the schools the committee requested last year's freshmen to answer the following questions: What was the number and nature of written exercises at his school, what was the relative amount of time devoted there to English composition, did he pass the Harvard entrance examination in English. The result of these answers shows a condition of affairs not only desirable but necessary to change...
...Yale-Princeton football managements have decided to play the Thanksgiving day game on the Manhatten field. The two college associations have rented the grounds from the Manhatten Athletic Club for about $5,000, thus the club will make a profit of that amount, whereas last year it lost nearly...