Show STUDENT LIFE winter training- This is no longer true The recent appropriation received by the athletic department was sufficiently large to cover the expense of building a track as well as providing new equipment for the gymnasium The track and equipment are ready for use so also is the athletic director It now remains for the students to make use of them The committees in charge of the athletic work have decided that in April there shall be a track meet among the departments of the col- Each is expected to organize a team for regular work from which the best men will be chosen to take part in the April contest From the whole number the Athletic Director will choose men to represent our institution in intercollegiate meets A cup has been presented to the association by the firm of Dunbar & Robinson The intention is to have the departments compete in an annual spring track meet The one that is winner in a specified number of contests shall retain the cup permanently as a trophy As yet we have taken no part in the spring track meets but hope that this year will at least see us in the field and that in the near future our efforts will be crowned with success In order that we may have a winning team it is necessary for every student that has ability as an athlete to be out for lege training 153 Examinational Aftermath Examinations are over once more and as usual have left smiles and frowns There are many more indications of low grades as a result of these recent tests than ever previously known This may be due to the gradual raising of the standard of the school or due to inconsistency on the part of instructors There is a - “knack” of examining which tew instructors possess to a high degree Some consider an examination entirely proper if nothing more is included in it than what is found in the footnotes of the text used Their argument is that a student should master every detail of the book and the best way to test him is to include in the quiz footnotes and other incidentals We see few advantages and many disadvantages in such a method The student grinds sweats and plugs away until he has mastered every page and paragraph and then finds lie has missed the main thing in the course He has failed to grasp the subject as a unit but has been buried in a mass of detail We can conceive of some cases where detail is necessary but not foremost in imAn examination to be portance difficult need not be of such a character One which makes the student summarize a term’s work in a few pages is more difficult and more beneficial Such an examination no fair minded student would shun but such an examination few professors know how to write In some cases especially in high- - |