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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prof. Bocher, and an authority says it will be a different course than it has ever been before; no account will be made of the matter read; the examination will be, not on the substance of the books read, but extracts from different authors will be given to test the student's facility in reading French. Mr. Sheldon has charge of Italian I. and II.; Prof. Nash has full charge of the Spanish department; German I. and IV. will be consolidated, forming a whole course, under Mr. Lutz. Mr. Cook has presented a new course in German classics. This...
...reached the average of 22 years, 11.7 months. Thus she exacts a much higher quality of preparatory work, and is dealing with a maturer class of students than formerly. Higher quality as well as quantity in preparation is required. "This is most conspicuously to be seen in the test of translation at sight, which forms an important part of the examinations in languages...
...young men selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
...imperfection of the present system of examinations and of class organization in our colleges. A lad with a certain gift of smartness can get through a term with a very limited amount of study, and trust to trick and device to save himself from disgrace at the final test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount...
...long time under discussion by many of the most prominent boating-men and physicians of the world, namely, the four-mile course in boat-races. All physicians, who have given the subject any thought or attention, unanimously agree that a race of four miles is but a needless test of a man's endurance, and that no man can row that distance, spurred on by ambition and excitement and straining every muscle at each stroke, without some serious injury, which is sure to make itself apparent sooner or later. Such a strain on both nerves and muscles...