Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-15

ant decision was announced TO-DAY Uy
the faculty of the college, whereby Yale
adopts the semester plan Of dividing
the college year. The December ex-
aminations by this decision will be
postponed until after the Christmas re-
cess, and mid-year examinations will
begin three weeks after the resump
ton of college work in January. The
Junior promenade festivities are to be
moved to the days Immediately preced-
ing the beginning of the second half
year.
In adopting the half-year system,
which obtains at practically all other
universities, its bearing upon the con-
tinuity and effectiveness of the college
work was carefully considered. BY the
new plan there will be three OF four
unbroken weeks between Thanksgiving
and Christmas. free from the distrac-
tons Of outdoor athletics and similar
period of three solid weeks in January,
unbrolSen by the prom. festivities, which
have had a demoralizing effect on
study in the past. Then 1t will also re-
move the present inequality between
the amount of work examined in June
and in December of which there has
been much complaint.
Incidental to commenting on the bet
ter opportunity the new system will
give in following out half-yesr courses
in an intensive way, Professor Duncan
reported some figures sug gestive Of the
degree to which, in some cases, stu
dents scatter their courses and ener-
giles. In the present senior class 81
men are simultaneously pursuing six
different courses; Sc men seven
courses; So men eight courses; 81 men
nine courses, and nine men ten differ
ent courses. In the junior class matters
are much the same, nine, men taking
ten courses, 40 men nine, 10 men
eight 81 men seven, and IS men six.
The new system will enable the stu
dent to concentrate on fewer subjects
at the same time, and thus make his
work far more effective.
The new system will go into effect
in the college year 1s13-1s14.
The "honor system" came before the
freshman class Of Sheffield Scientific
school on Wednesday night, and fol-
lowing the example Of the two upper
classes, it was passed by a large ma
jority. The votes were 1877 for and on
| ly II against. The total vote of the
whole school was 4S1 for, ia against,
a percentage of 81.
This means that hereafter in Shelf.
the "cribbing'' evil that has sprung up
widely in the past few years, will be
ended. Every man in the school, by the
| terms of the proposal Of the Sheffield
student council, will be put upon his
honor not to give or receive aid during
examinations. 1t has been a subject
discussed with extreme interest during
/ the past few weeks, and there is a
general feeling of satisfaction that the
new system, while ii is acknowledged
| far oct r1C Of pd n 10
| the difficulty. is to be given trial
The Yale gymnasium brought its
| winter season of classes to a close on
Wednesday evening by an exposition Of
| the work of all departments on the
| main floor with over thousand. inter-
ested spectators il attendance. The
programme included fifteen interesting
| events, among them the class work in
body building" apparatus work. ex-
| hihition Of sparring, one of the boxers
being George Borup, '93, the Arctic ex-
plorer, who is thus getting in shape for
| his coming trip; fencing pyramid
building, advanced work on the parallel
bars, horse and other apparatus by the
| Yale gym. team, weight lifting by
| Clarence F. Foster, assistant instruc-
| tor in the gymnasium, and wrestling.
The first of March seems to be pre-
| eminently a time Of feasting in college
| circles. Some Of the larger banquets
Of the past two weeks have been the
| sRth annual of the Yale Daily News
tho 2eth annual of the Yale Record
Phi Beta Kappa's 1920 banquet al
Yale. and on Wednesday night of this
week the 18th annual feast of the Yale
Literary Magazine Among the speak
ers at the last affair were Tudor jerks
An Awful Example; Ralph D. Paine
The Lit. and After; Prof. G. U. Clark
Good English, and L. Hopkinson Smith
The Old Time.
Graft, Its Cause and Cure was dis
cussed Wednesday night before the
Yale Society for the Study of Socialism
by Lincoln Steffens, author and pub
hcist. Mr. Stetfens had just come from
the strike at Lawrence, Mass.
The Ideal Newspaper was the sub.
1ect Of the second and last Bromley
lecture on Journalism of the year. de-
lIvered Tuesday night by A Morris
Low of Washington, one Of the bes
known newspaper writer's Of America
and Of England as we'll His ideal wal