Word: students
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...before the first faculty reception takes place, a program of the different days, classes and subjects is arranged and published. It is not a pretentious document, but it is very interesting to its readers. They pore over the lists and make their arrangements for the cramming process which most students believe is essential to success. Recitations cease a day or two before the first annual, and the intervening days are devoted in most cases to hard study. Cramming, as this pre-examination study is almost universally called, takes a number of different forms. The lower classes, whose time has been...
...subject of the next day's ordeal. Few have the coolness or self-confidence required to pursue this policy. There is always something that has been forgotten to be looked up, and one last look is apt to suggest another. Tutoring is also extensively resorted to, and the students who are willing, for a consideration, to give their time to aiding their backward companions are kept busy. Some men make a business of this tutoring, and, if successful, win a college reputation. The fact that tutoring exists is, of course, known to the faculty, and sometimes encouraged by that body...
...prepare men for the examinations: but cramming is at least half honest. "Cribbing," as the other process is styled, is almost utterly dishonest. It is simyly an attempt to carry into examination material with which the questions of the examiners may be answered without any regard to the student's knowledge of the subject. As all the men examined on a certain day in a certain branch of study are given printed papers bearing the same questions it would seem the most natural way for the men to get possession of the paper before the examination. This, unfortunately, is seldom...
...Persons who are not candidates for a degree may be admitted to any of the courses of instruction in the university, provided that they satisfy the appropriate faculty of their fitness to pursue the particular courses which they elect. The several faculties have the right to deprive any such student of his privileges if he abuse them or fail to use them. It was also resolved that the privileges extended to special students being readily subject to abuse the overseers recommend that these privileges be very sparingly granted that great care be taken in admitting special students to the various...
...most puzzling questions of student life is the question of summer reading. No period of the year is so little devoted to purely intellectual pursuits as the period from June to October. A hard year's work at college is hardly fitted to inspire a man with a profound idea of his intellectual duty to himself during the warm months. But a zealous student finds during his collegiate term that he has but little time to devote to collateral reading, and is only allowed by pressure of circumstances to gather a list of those books which he deems...