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...Colleges should adopt some new plan. - (a). To protect genuine scholars against the loss of time caused by the slow progress of idle classmates. - (b). To enable professional students to shorten their college course: Nation, XLIX, 425. - (c). This is shown by decrease in per cent. of college graduates. - (1). In professional schools: Ed. Rev. I, 4-5. - (2). In the population at large: Harv...
Long monotony of work hurts the character. We can shorten the hours of work of laborers and give rational amusement to them in their leisure. We need moral teachers for the hungry among the people. to teach them the object of life...
Agassiz rows fairly well but he also has a tendency to shorten his stroke and to break his arms too soon...
...slow to start on the recover. Bow, Newell, is very slow at both ends of the stroke, particularly in getting his arms straight on the recover. The crew is slow in getting the arms away from the body, do not handle the oars cleanly and in the stroke shorten much on stroke and No. 7. All the men have a tendency to pull the arms into the body too hard...
There is one aspect of the proposal to shorten the course to three years which has not been touched upon except casually; and that is the effect which such a change would have on the athletic and social life of the students. Professor James in his article in the Monthly hints that there might be some disturbance in the state of our athletic and social organization but does not speak with any seriousness on the subject. As a matter of fact it is a question likely to influence the undergraduates only, and the faculty and outsiders will generally not consider...