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...merely a question of time as to when some changes must be made, and it would be far better to make this change before it is forced upon us. The glee clubs from their position must be the pioneers in this movement, and to them we must assign either the praise or blame of its fortunes...
Professor Shaler ahs been unable to assign seats in N. H. 4, owing to lack of desks...
...exact standing of any student. Therefore it has become necessary in order that the marks in any one course may not be out of proportion to the standard of marking employed in other courses for the instructor in that course, either to employ an artificial scale and to assign a general mark much higher than could strictly be given to it were it marked in detail, or else to apply some system of equalization, such as raising all the marks in his course by a certain fraction of the mark assigned to each book, or by a certain per cent...
...collegiate weighing-machine is to substitute weighing for the old-fashioned methods of examination. The weighing-machine will afford, in some respects, a fair test of the progress which the students have made in the higher studies-such as base ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that is plausible in this view of the matter, and the advent of the weighing-machine may thus mean that Middlebury intends henceforth to give greater prominence...
...writing of college songs seems to have become one of the lost arts. With every year the appearance of new songs that have any distinctive college stamp and flavor is becoming more rare. It is difficult to assign any satisfactory reason for this condition of affairs. It cannot be that taste and talent have seriously deteriorated. It is possible indeed that college students have become so much more critical and exacting in their demands in this kind of music that it is difficult for amateur composers any longer to command sufficient spontaneity and self-confidence for the production of lively...