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...need of establishing a tutorial system for men concentrating in literature becomes" in the words of the report "clearer every year." But however clear the need may have become, there has been up to the present no visible attempt to satisfy it. To expect students without tutorial guidance adequately to prepare themselves for examinations which are really general can have only two results; either the men will not be adequately prepared or the examinations will not be general. Actually both faults are common, and the chief value of the general examination--an impetus to extended and general reading--is likely...
...matter will perhaps be made clearer by an explanation of the functions of the agencies concerned with health and athletics. The department of hygiene, under Dr. Roger I. Lee, has general charge of the health of students. In this department are the medical adviser, Dr. Bailey, who takes care of students who are ill, and has immediate charge of the Stillman Infirmary; and the director of physical education, Mr. William H. Geer, who directs the compulsory exercise plan for freshmen and is in general charge of unorganized athletics...
...present compromise is satisfactory neither to the good student nor the poor, the specialist in one period nor the man who runs over the whole field. The proposed change will not make the examination easier nor the preparation less; it will simply make the aim of study clearer, and eliminate some of the uncertainty and injustice to individuals...
This somewhat ambiguous statement becomes much clearer when referred to the pages of "THE SLANG DICTIONARY; OR, THE VULGAR WORDS, STREET PHRASES, AND "FAST" EXPRESSIONS OF HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY--LONDON: 1867. Here then is the explanation...
...real suggestion lurking in the mind of the Atlantic's contributor, is perhaps that some clearer synthesis is needed between reading and the study of technicalities, a synthesis which is made only by the rare student who applies the lecturer's critical doctrines to the "required reading" faithfully and sensitively. If his only knowledge consists of hastily digested critical formulae and an Independent glance at the authors themselves, often through the crude spectacles of tutoring notes, he will never learn what is meant by genius. A tentative answer to the difficulty has been proposed uniquely in the Freshman class...