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...filled the office of Secretary, and without assistance till his work outgrew the possible capacity of a single hand or brain. It is difficult to estimate the amount and diversity of the demands upon him in conducting confidential correspondence, in the minute and delicate calculations connected with the rank-list, in constructing tables of college-statistics, in superintending arrangements for examinations, and in so ordering the details of the academic routine as to preclude interference and conflict. No person connected with the University has labored more assiduously than he, or to better purpose. Intelligence, discretion, vigilance, patience, punctuality, integrity, kindness...
...elect hard courses, but if anybody ever asks my advice again I shall say, "If you want to get the greatest good out of your college course, and are prepared to bear the scorn of mark worshippers, take solid electives. But if you want to shine upon the rank-list and have a Commencement part, devote your time to ethics and the modern languages...
...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 him on to exertion...
...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...
...every purpose, - not such examination as we have at present, nor, indeed, the exaggerated English system; but a system which should combine the present method and the English thoroughness and fairness, which should announce merely failure, success, or excellence, and not parade results before the public in a deceitful rank-list...