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...field. Captain Rhodes began the season with a nucleus of old and experienced players; besides himself there were Heffelfinger, Hartwell, the two Morisons, McClung and Harvey; in addition Williams and C. Bliss had had some experience and had shown themselves valuable men. Holcomb had served an apprenticeship of three years on the second eleven, and Wallis, Mills, Adams and Crosby had all done good work in the same training school. Barbour had done good work at Exeter and on the freshman team last year, and finally, N. Bliss, an incoming freshman, had promised well when at Andover...
...average college graduate is 26 years old when he takes his degree at the Law School, and then has his apprenticeship or clerkship of intermediate length before he can practice for himself. Wherever the fault and whatever the remedy, it is evident that the degree of Bachelor of Arts is taken in the U. S. later than in any other country in which the degree is used, and too late for the best interests of the individuals who aspire to it, and for the institutions which confer...
...deem the best preparation to be an apprenticeship in a well-arranged library; but it is not easy to find such opportunities. The oversight and introduction of new people in a library is a disadvantage to that library, as interfering with its work, which few head librarians are willing to encounter unless it is necessary to recruit the library staff. Hence a special department has been instituted at Columbia College in New York, called the school of "Library Economy" which is under the direction of Melville Dewey, the secretary of the American Library Association. They have teachers specially provided...
...literary organization until well into the junior year. If a sophomore forerunner were established it might give the eminence not to the most deserving, but to those who have been most forward with their talents-something which is not likely to occur at present, owing to the long apprenticeship which must be undergone before any tangible compensation is afforded...
Nearly all college students are accustomed to celebrate in some way their joy at the completion of their apprenticeship to mathematics. Some of them when they have finished the Trigonometry bury it with more or less solemn rites; others burn it at the stake, and others resort to more hilarious performances. At Vassar the middle of the sophomore year closes the study of trigonometry and is also the end of the prescribed course, and the students thereafter are permitted to elect what branches they will pursue. It is therefore an important epoch in college life, and the "Trig Ceremonies...