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...result of these changes will be to lighten some of the requirements both for concentration and for honors. On the other hand, the requirements are made more severe by several changes. First, additional correlation questions shall be required in the special field examinations, and second, the departmental or the special examination may be lengthened to four hours, if the department concerned so votes...
...holes punched in every duralumin girder to lighten it until it looks like a piece of metal lace (yet the girder is made stronger than before by flanging the edges of the holes...
...should be carried. Some seem to think that it is not necessary for a fellow to leave school at the end of the week and go home or seek some other form of diversion. Others think it a wise plan to allow these week-ends because they tend to lighten one and prepare one for the work of the following week in others words, a complete change from the week-day schedule...
...minimizing his importance--with the natural result. Dwindling in his own eyes, he reasserts himself, though that is at first a bit difficult. He cannot subtract one cubit from the stature of those collegiate halls whose very size and costliness and grandeur overawe and humiliate him. He cannot lighten by so much as an ounce the pressure of undergraduate opinion, which, finding him not only insignificant but at numerous points objectionable, sets out to work him over into conformity with standard design. But the professors, who have somehow an air of owning the institution and owning him--those, at least...
Professor Wright gives a clear lecture full of good material. However, he cannot lighten it by anecdotes or any other touches which are not strictly concerned with the subject matter; for in one half a year he has to cover all American Constitutional History from the calling of the Constitutional Convention to the present time. The classes are relieved now and then by discussions of cases of the U. S. Supreme Court which are less boring if less enlightening...