Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...requested that only those who have received a special invitation frequent the bench at bell games...
...undesirable: (I). Not a satisfactory test of knowledge.- (a) Too large a field covered by one examination.- (x) Impossible thoroughly to test whole subject.- (b) Too great an element of chance involved.- (x) "Good luck" often a factor.- (y) External conditions unduly influential.- (1) Occasional indisposition of student. (2) Frequent excessive heat of final period.- (c) Men often fail to show their real knowledge.- (x) Owing to nervousness caused by issue at stake on one examination.- (3) Evil results upon students.- (a) Mental and physical strain.- (b) Moral relaxation.- (c) Encourages practice of "cramming."- (x) A knowledge sufficient to pass...
viewed.- (b) Evils resulting from chance and external conditions largely removed.- (x) Average results of frequent tests much more accurate than results of one or two.- (c) Nervousness of students greatly lessened.- (x) Not so much at state on each examination.- (2) A more beneficial method to our students.- (a) Requires more uniform and regular work.- (x) No interruption of term.- (y) Inducements to "cramming" greatly lessened.- (1) Students would tend to maintain a high standard of work in view of shortly recurring examinations...
...years abroad he entered St. Paul's School, and was there one year before entering college, winning the school essay prize during that time. During freshman year he belonged to the Freshman Union, being at one time its vice-president. Throughout his course, Mr. Stokes has been a frequent attendant of the Yale Union, although he is one of the busiest men in college. He was fence orator in his freshman and sophomore years, a member of the sophomore German committee, and floor manager of the junior promenade. During a year or two he was a frequent contributor...
...simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then was not over $1000. Yet they had their fair share of victories. Many sports now enjoyed...