Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...apply for every room not re-engaged. If, after their wants are satisfied, any rooms remain that are not disposed of, the sub-Freshmen should be allowed to draw for them; they should not be allowed to draw for rooms which many men in college would be glad to get. It does not seem to us that it is anything but just to ask that men who have been in College for from one to three years, and have contributed to its support during that time, should have some advantages given them in a matter of this sort over those...
...good one, but it is carried to such an excess by some instructors that it is fast becoming a nuisance. So many copies of the texts required in studying for Honors are reserved, that those who have occasion to work outside of the Library complain that they cannot get any editions. It is useful to have enough copies of a play reserved to enable each of the candidates that are at work in the Library to have a book; but when an instructor puts every good edition on the reference shelves, many who wish to do work outside are greatly...
Having seen the worth of these honours, let us examine their effect upon the students, who may be divided into three classes. The first, those who already get Commencement parts or Final Honours, will have less instigation, for the worth of a part will certainly be greatly diminished. Those who now do not stand well at all in any subject will not be much affected by "honourable mention"; if desire for knowledge, a position on the rank-list, etc., will not lead a man to study at all, it is not likely that the prospect of being "mentioned" will spur...
...come to the middle class, - those who, without taking honours in a subject, or getting a part, have a fair general average. This class, say the inventors of the new scheme, will be greatly benefited; the result on this class, to the contrary, will be rather to diminish good scholarship than to increase it. Some will, undoubtedly, be incited to further exertion by having a prize put within easy reach; but a great many, who at present take hard courses, and do very fairly in them, will give up Philosophy or English, and substitute German and Natural History, in which...
...enough of a specialist to stand well in a certain subject, and no others, should try for Final Honours; they are for specialists, and convey great distinction. A student who does not care enough for his special study to take honours in it, or for other studies to get an average of eighty per cent, ought not to complain if his merits are not rewarded by a place on the Commencement programme, and should be satisfied with the credit given him each year on the rank-list...