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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good if he is lazy, and earnest students do not need "bracing." As to getting an idea of the questions on mid-year papers, anyone can go to the library and see what the questions have been for years, while the questions in an hour examination are often totally different from those given later. As to the fact of these examinations "being excellent tests to let a man see whether he has worked too much or too little," it seems to me that a man is not at all likely to overwork himself in a course...
...soon ejected. It is an old custom at Yale for the seniors to rise in their seats and salute the president as he passes down the aisle, at the close of chapel; but the freshmen are expected to leave the chapel at the close of the last prayers; but often in their ignorance, seeing the seniors bow, they think that it is their place to do likewise, and so they remain...
President Dwight often says that the freshmen class do not like him, as they have not bowed to him since the first day at prayers. At four o'clock in the afternoon they meet in the chapel, where they are assigned seats and divided into three or five divisions, according to their entrance examinations. They have three recitations a day with the exception of Saturdays, when they have one and a lecture by the president upon "Common Sense and Righteousness." Sometimes during the first three months the freshman class is given a reception by President Ewight. About this time...
...number of views of glacial scratches and the pebbles which made them were next shown, while the cause of their formation was being explained. Then pictures of glacial deposits some 95 feet thick were presented. Cedar logs of large size are often buried in these and the lecturer said that while camping in Alaska his only fuel was preglacial woods many thousands of years...
Photographs of Alaskan scenery were next exhibited in great abundance, including some of Sika and of the various mining camps. The coast is a range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches...