Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which is largely taken by Seniors, - all of these facts are reasons enough why the marks should not be kept secret; and if the instructor has any scruples about the matter, the Faculty should overcome them, in order that on their own authority the marks may be given...
...York Times has an exhaustive editorial, in a recent issue, on the subject of elective studies. The author shows a good deal of sense and acknowledge of his subject, but the article can hardly apply to us, as we have realized every improvement which he advocates. The smaller colleges that still crawl in the old rut of making every man swallow the same dose may find it to their advantage to consider this article carefully. The time has come when the old ideas of education are no longer applicable, and the sooner they are laid aside the better. The self...
SEMIANNUALS, with all their accompanying trials, have been a subject of such general and vital interest to the undergraduate mind during the past three weeks, that the question, Are they an unmixed good? may not be out of place...
...following reasons. I defy any man, - always leaving out the exceptional genius who is sui generis and therefore outside of all logical argument, - be he ever so faithful a student, to go into an examination and do himself justice or fairly test his technical knowledge of a subject, without a careful review of the matter he is to be examined on. It is the review of a subject that drives it home, that makes it fast in the tenacious grasp of memory. But when do we get the opportunity for this review? During the three weeks allotted to the examinations...
...students, then, the present system is disadvantageous; to those whose examinations chance to come unfavorably - for it is all a matter of chance, and the class subject to the caprice of Fortune is a numerous one - it is grossly unfair, while to the most fortunate the limited time does not give fit opportunity for preparation. I therefore think the object of the examinations is not attained, since they do not afford the test desired...