Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-27

New Haven, Marcn zo.--A IaT TedC1i-
 ing plan to secure higher quality or
 intellectual work in the academic de-
 partnAau has been adopted by the fac
 ufty in the system of honors announc-
 ed this week. It will go into effect in
 the fall of 1915, thus giving consider
 able time to work out it's details, ana
 will affect the members of the junior
 and senior classes in the college. The
 honors system follows with slight
 notifications systems introduced this year in Harvard and Princeton It has long been used in the English univer-
 sites and some Canadian institutions
 The students who in their first two years obtain an average of 800 Con the scale of 400), or others who are ,espe- cialiy commended by the department in which they do most Of their work may become candidates for honorS This means that these more capable students will be given a different kind of instruction and of examination Tn the work for honorS. The exceptional men will be weeded out and given an opportunity to go ahead unhampered by the average of the poor students. The committee on the honor system has designed it not for a greater ac- cumulaticn of farts-that is done enough now-but for the development of the reasoning powers. Their ideal of an examination is one general com prehentive one, covering all the sub jects in a mans honor course, and thereby making him relate them one to the other.
 In some courses the system will
 mean a special division for honor men; 1; in others, supplemental instruction; in still other cases, restriction of aovanc- ed courses to honor men alone The committee on the honors sys- tenn feels that it will make college more a preparation for and guarantee of success in after life.
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 The 1914 Junior Promenade cost | S6,596-2S, the report of the committee | this week shows and that amount IS | quite a little below the average of the 1 last ten promenades. The greatest sum, | $815396 was expended by the 1912 | Prom. committee. and the lowest, S5,- l 656. .45, by the 1913 committee This | year there were total receipts of SS,- 1 I95.So, ticket sales alone netting S5,- l 104 giving a surplus of s1 ,59e.52 to be | refunded to box-holders.
 The outbreak of half dozen or more i cases of scarlet fever in college caus- | ed President Hadley to advise precau- l tionary measures in chapel the other | morning, when he urged all men who | had sore throats to have them sprayed l at once, and all who had reason to be- 1 lieve that they had been exposed to re- 1 port to Dean Jones for advice, and a 1 litter of laughter, quite an unusual l ran DdItoll- TC8y l sat down with a smile on his face. and ] after the pOst-chapel rush to the post | office, the same advice was read in the | News. Since then a number of men | have come down, among them Pum-
 belly, the football and baseball man 1 who will be kept from the southern
 trip during the Easter recess that be- | gins April S.
 The Academic senior council, with the approval of the faculty, has outlin- i ed an honor system for examinations and class room work in the college ! and the four classes are to vote upon | it on Monday. All supervision by the 1 faculty will be withdrawn, and the l question of honesty will be left to the 1 individuals honor, and public opinion ! A three-fourths vote is considered nec- eSsary to ratify the plan. which is flaw ored by most of the faculty members whose opinions have been asked. Ir fact, it has been used by Professor 1 Phelps n bis classes for some years 1 with success
 i The plans provide that every student | entering the college shall be given ar opportunity to sign pledge card, ano | that after every examination he Shal 1 sign the pledge. The instructor may i be present to distribute papers and i answer questions. but not to supervise i the honesty of the examination. There 1 is to be no smoking or disorderly con i duct allowed during the examination
 Over in the old cemetery in East | Haven the grave of the first student 1 who attended Yale college has lately i ben fixed up and recalled little more to the public mind. IL is the grave of ! Rev. Jacob Hemingway and on the back of the old stone-the face was SC ! inscribed as to give no rOom-this in- scription has been placed by his great 1 great grandnephew, William Henry Bishop '67. of New Haven: Jacob | Hemingway. here buried. was the first ! student of Yale college, March. 17o2.' Now that attention has been called tC the grave. the authorities of East Ha- ven are planning to put up a railing | around it.