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Ball-playing, boating, etc., are engaged in by students as recreations, and students ought not to be expected to compete on equal terms with those who make the practice of these recreative sports the business of their lives. Students who compete or practice with professionals gain in experience and skill, but this renders it necessary that their college opponents should have a similar advantage, or the terms would be unequal. This would lead to the employment of professionals in every branch of competitive sport. But as the character of professionals, as a whole, is not high, it is believed that...
...long as intercollegiate contests are continued the conditions under which the students of the different colleges compete should be as nearly equal as possible. Therefore...
...which are not known beyond a radius of ten miles. These give the degree of bachelor of arts to men and women, many of whom have received less of a liberal education than our preparatory schools offer. This is wholly wrong, as this title or degree is apparently of equal value with those given to graduates of the best colleges. It only needs a little investigation to find out how much these are worth; but one has not always the time to take this trouble and must take it for granted that the holder of such a degree...
...intervale between the recitations, every man felt that such courses demanded more work from him than he was given credit for doing. It was openly acknowledged that two half-courses were far more than an equivalent to one full course, and yet in reality they were held to be equal, and could be substituted for each other. Naturally such a state of things proved most unsatisfactory, and some change was felt to be needed. Then the present system, by which a half course became a three hour course for half a year, was tried in some subjects, and this...
First.-Six hours a week of the average student's time will gain in certain courses a mark much higher than in certain other courses; yet all three hour courses are counted equal. The student is therefore tempted to elect easy courses in preference to harder and more profitable ones...