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...Sargent is now at work upon a scientific treatise which will appear shortly...
...greatest injustice lies in the assignment of the degrees at commencement. According to the regulations any person who receives honors in any subject is entitled to a degree magna cum laude, and one who receives highest honors gets a degree summa cum laude. This, at first sight, may appear fair enough, but if the subject is examined closely the great injustice is at once apparent. A man who has special ability in any one line, but who is decidedly inferior in general knowledge, outranks a man of good general ability, in whom no one taste is specially developed. For instance...
...course. In some courses the candidate is required to have won "mid-course honors" in that subject. These "mid-course honors" correspond to our second year honors, but they are given in History, Political Science, French and German, as well as in Greek, Latin and Mathematics. The special requirements appear somewhat less difficult than those at Harvard...
...candidate, after completing his course and passing examinations similar to our own, must be examined (in 1883) in Greek on Sophocles' O. T. and Plato's Gorgias; and in Latin on Plautus' Rudens, Terence's Andria and one book of Cicero's De Natura Deorum. Here again the requirements appear rather low. The requirements for honors of both classes in the other subjects are similar to those in the subjects already mentioned. In the modern languages special authors are to be prepared for examination, and the history of the country is also included. There seems to be no distinction, such...
...course it is impossible to make comparisons as to the difficulties of attaining these distinctions at different universities, as a printed announcement of requirements gives no indication of the severity and thoroughness of the examinations. Still the requisitions at Cornell appear to be much inferior to those at Harvard, particularly from the fact that the announcement seems to imply that a man can get honors in Greek without attaining them in Latin, and in French without any special knowledge of German or other modern languages...