, 1884-12-12
AT THE UNIVERSITY. /.
HOW STUDENTS PREPARE AND HOW
SOME EvADE THEIR LESSONS.
inside View of n Recitation Room IN Mich
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age Enough to Risk FUNK
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Student life in the university and student
life out Of the university are slightly differ
emit To be a success in the first Instance re-
quires brains, in the second muscle. The
several departments are open from about 8
In the morning till q Mt night The students
need not be present all day and are allowed
to come and go, rs their classes permit, the
time OF recitation for each study being sixty
minutes. Consequently n pupil may be on
ham perhaps from 1890 to 1880 and then DO
free until 8 in the afternoon. This interim
be can I'LL in us he plsases. His hours and
Etudies vary each day. however, and so
while one day he may have but
two recitations on others be may have
four or FIVE and find himself thor
ouRhly occupied. Lessons are invariably
long and difficult, and should one through
some mischBncc miss classes for a week he
would find himself obliged to burn midnight
oil by the gallon in order to catch up to his
more steady associates.
IL rometimes happens that for one cause or
another a student hos not prepared one Of
his lessons and that the hour for the hearing
OF the neglected study Is close at hand. Two
courses aro open 70 him. He can either go.
to the class and tako his chances OF failing,
or thinking" as it Is called, or he can sim
ply fhfl to appear, or in university nomencla-
ture be can bolt" This latter course Is the
preferable one, and the most resorted to for
many reasons.
Imagine a youth with courage enough TO
attempt the first counsel Picture his state Of
mind for sixty long minutes. He hns come
totally u~nprspared, docs not know the sub
5ect under Immediate discussion He shivers
AS be takes his seat and counts his chances.
The Lesson opens and he tries 70 look un-
concerned nnd at ease. The professor begins
- A and rvrr0n fbrcsr-h fha r1oaa m1nhohaf-
ically. Our youths mans begins with @.
Tho professor creeps down the list steadily.
steadily, and our man 10 getting more and
more excited the nearer and nearer
his initial Is approached. BE chances
earnestly at his watch to see II
the hour is not up. Only ten minutes
have gone. The professor is down to +. The
student has alternate spells Of intense cold
and heat, and he can scarcely control him
self. He feels that he il nearly doomed. He
must make a grand effort for his expiring
cause. As the professor Is about to call out
H our mar stops him and says he doesn't un-
derstand the point just given This is only
to gain time
The professor stops and explains; the stu
lent feels n little better; still he realizes that
he has but one chance left, and that Is a.
slim as q burglars who attempts 10 discover
the combination of a safe by actual trial
one In two billion. But he will try IT, He
loses no time but pours forth a perfect deluge
Of questions and awaits the result with fear
and trembling. His idea now is to make
the professor halt in his cool and systematic
why Of reeling OF the names and to cause
him to skip some letters and begin further
down the LIST. And the professor does skip;
he skips 70 Nj SO much for tact.
The student Is once moro at case, and there
is the ~faintest shadow Of a smile playing way
back OF his ears. But in a moment he Is
again reduced to despair. The professor has
begun calling irregularly, now A, now K,
now S. The hour lacks fifteen minutes Of
being full-ffteenl minutes of alternate hope
and despair; tho delinquent is beginning to
wilt along with his collar and is about to
give up for the 700th time. The professor
calls up l. Oh, how near hat lightning
struck The delinquent here makes q
solemn vow that should he escape unharmed
he will go to the university chapel in the
morning, to which attendance il not COM
pulsory, and return thanks. Ten minutes
pass, and the last five begin to creep away.
Perhaps he consults his watch sixteen timesl
He Is safel No, he is lostl All upl
Couragei And then at last the great bell In
the dome rings out the hour; he joyously
hears the next lesson assigned and goes out
with a smile. He has won, but tho victory
was dearly gained. and the next time, under
similar circumstances, he will bolt
To prepare a lesson Of one hour re-
quires from two to four hours Of thorough
application, and when a person has sixteen,
eighteen or twenty recltntions a week, the
result may be imagined. At night, when
one walks along the street, he is struck with
the unusual number Of student lamps he secs.
Nearly every house has its quota. 1.-THE
woods sru full of them" The burning lamps
belong to the students who are hard at work
preparing for the morrow, and those who are
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