Word: systemize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years. In the foreign universities, the only examinations are those required for a degree; and even these are not answers to a paper, but consist of carefully prepared theses. In those courses here in which theses and special reports are required there is no excuse for the present system, and several instructors have already realized this to such an extent that they give no mid-year papers. The evils of grinding are too well known to require mention, but the instructors can hardly be a ware of the actual state of things. Cases are frequent in which...
...sale of reserved seats at the last Yale game. In view of the many similar complaints which have been made recently, an answer is not only desirable but necessary. We trust that the assertions contained in the communication can be satisfactorily explained, otherwise a radical reform in the present system of selling reserved seats is most advisable...
...should be forced to pay one dollar for the privilege of seeing a game on our own grounds it is hard to understand. The association might just as well charge one dollar admission and leave all the seats unreserved. We would strongly recommend a return to the old system of having three or four sections unreserved. By doing this, the base-ball management will escape the maledictions of the students and will still have enough in its treasury to buy its blazers, bate and balls. The action of the management on Saturday was simply outrageous...
...examination system at Amherst has been entirely done away with. A series of written exercises given at the option of the professor at intervals throughout the term has been substituted. It is said that the new plan is highly satisfactory to the Amherst students. The habit of cramming before examinations is no longer possible...
...recent editorial in the Boston Advertiser upon the system of voluntary attendance at religious services, the writer, after giving a brief history of the experiment at Harvard and after quoting testimony given by Professor Peabody in the Monthly and by Rev. D. N. Beach in the June Andover Review, showing the full success of the experiment, adds this conclusion: "The testimony of these exceptionally competent witnesses confirms the evidence which comes from many other sources, and it is to this effect. The attendance, although voluntary, has been good. The vesper services have been thronged. There never was more religious life...