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...CRIMSON:- You published in a recent issue a communication in which the writer advocated the abolition of semi-annual examinations and the substitution in their place of periodical hour examinations. His chief argument in favor of this change was that the present system allows a man so inclined to loaf the greater part of the year and to grind up before the examination just enough to enable him to pass. As a result, the writer urges, a few days after the examinations he knows as little as he did before. The adoption of the hour examination plan would prevent this...
...exception for such men to get much lasting benefit from their college career. The man who comes to college simply to have a good time, and who does not care for the great advantages the college offers, is tempted, with the present system of examinations, to loaf. Such a man would oppose hour examinations; but the man who is desirous of making the most of his advantages here (and I think such men are in the majority) ought to favor them...
...most advanced and liberal colleges in America. The authorities exert absolutely no control over his actions or his studies-chief of all,-there are no parietal regulations. The result can more readily be imagined than described. Parents do not expect their sons to do anything but drink and loaf during the first year at the University-and their expectations are fully reached. The young fellows who wish to be at all prominent in the social life of the University town, join the famous "Corps" which are secret organizations formed for the avowed purpose of dueling and drinking. When...
...year and not run in debt. This only means that the life of the school is grandly vigorous. Its various departments beset the sorely tried president and treasurer with the appetites of growing boys. But that appetite shows that the family resources are increasing, and that the college loaf will be big enough...
...tired of urging under-classmen to take some interest in the college, and to do something but loaf their leisure away; and most tired of pointing out that the interest of the college at large is the interest of every particular student...