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...different electives. We do not wish to question the wisdom of this method in the particular cases that we have in mind; there may be reasons strong enough to justify its adoption. On general principles, however, the system is not a good one. In the first place the student gets but half an hour of instruction, instead of the full hour, which, when he took the course, he had every reason to suppose he would receive. Then again, when his half-hour is over, he must be an unwilling listener to instruction that, in most cases at least...
...will be done by such reduction seems to be evident to every one; for the fact, which is doubtful, that the marks were too high, is no excuse for lowering these marks eight months after they were given. One of the chief merits of anticipatory examinations is, that the student is at liberty either to accept the result, or to take the course throughout the year; in this case, the marks are to be so lowered that many students would not have accepted them, and this is done when it is too late to take the course. Men, whose positions...
PUNCTUALITY is not among the virtues of the Harvard student, if we may judge from the indications given at the taking of the various groups by Mr. Pach. Men would come sauntering into the studio half an hour late, and ask, with an innocent air, whether it was not almost time for the picture to be taken. Such men, that is, those of them who knew that their presence was necessary, seemed to forget that they were delaying, not merely their own group, but all the others that followed. It is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the advantages...
...always sorry to complain of our well-managed library, but it has one regulation in force for which there seems to be no good reason. When a student finds a book out, he is allowed to put down his name for it, and when it is returned to the library he is notified, and the book is reserved for him. This privilege is not allowed him in the case of novels, on what ground we cannot conceive, unless it be that novels are not worth reserving; and it is to this restriction that we refer. The idea that novels...
...Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that a student will be injured by reading in the class what he has just read outside in preparing the lesson. The instructor's motive, then, in being so exceedingly particular is, probably, to avoid all laughter and disorder. To this I can only say, after the manner of a parable: There were...