Votume VI. No. 12
NEW SYSTEM OF CUTS.
How it Has Workedin the Freshman
Class—Its Merits.
The new system of cuts and marks
described in the Weekly a short time
ago, which has been introduced with
the class of 1900, this Fall, has now
been in operation long enough, so that
to a limited degree, its merits can be
discussed. According to the older
system six cuts in each term were al-
lowed the students with the idea, that
they should be taken for illness and
other minor causes for absence. How-
ever, by degrees, excuses for sickness
came to be granted with considerable
fenjeney, and the six regular cuts were
taken generally for the convenience or
pleasure of a student. This result
was of course strictly at variance with
the object of the rule, and this year
the plan has been tried of allowing no
cuts at all without a positive excuSe.
At present, therefore, in the Fresh-
man class, no man is entirely excused
for any absence of less than a week,
it being considered that any illness of
shorter duration is not of sufficient
consequence to warrant his absence
from the class room. Inasmuch as
absence from work is a distinct loss
to the student, and those whose at-
tendance is regular deserve to be cred-
ited with a higher mark, the penalty
of a deduction of one point from the
stand of the subject in question is
made upon such absence. Any student
who is excusably absent for a week or
more can maintain his stand by mak-
ing up his lost work in the usual man-
ner.
It is generally considered hard upon
the students that they should loSe
from their stand for absences of short-
er duration than a week, no matter
what is the cause, for it really does
often occur that a student is prevent-
ed from attending class room exercises
for a day or two by an illness, not se-
rious in its consequences, but yet of a
nature to incapacitate him for any
work. While this rule may bear hard
upon some whose stand is not suffi-
ciently raised above the standard re-
quired, yet its general effects will cer-
tainly be in the direction of producing
more regular attendance of the stu-
dents who most need to give attention
to their work, and of preventing the
superficial granting of sick excuses for-
minor causes. AS a matter of
fact the attendance in the
Freshman class so far this term
has been more regular than ever be-
fore and the number of warnings given
out has been less.
Those men who in any case would
maintain a moderately high stand will
not be seriously affected by this rule.
It is only those, who are _ seeking
scholastic honors, or those who make
it their highest aim merely to remain
in College, that are apt to find fault
with the new system, for in each of
these cases a@ small difference in the
stand is productive of the greatest
consequences, Thus a high-stand man,
because he has missed half a dozen
recitations during the term, owing very
probably to legitimate causes, may in
this manner just miss gaining the ap-
pointment sought for, and those stu-
dents, who are at the lowest limit,
may find the loss of a few points in
their stand sufficient to drop them into
the class below. The main principles
of the rule are Clearly in the right di-
rection and the attendance of the Poor-
er scholars is of much greater import-
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ance than that of the high-stand men.
Up to this point the rule has been
found by the Faculty to work with
great success, and it is very probable,
although no official statement has yet
been made, that this plan will be ad-
hered to in all following classes.
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Kiskimnetas Club.
A meeting of the men in the Uni-
versity who prepared for College at
the Kiskimnetas School in Pennsylva-
nia was held on November 18 and a
club was formed. Officers for the year
were elected as follows: President,
Charles S. Evans, ’97; Secretary and
Treasurer, Samuel A. Gilmore, ’99. A
banquet was held at Heublein’s in No-
vember in honor of Professor A. W.
Wilson of the school.
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‘Wale Consolidated Team.”
It has been announced that a com-
pany of football players, to be known
as the Yale Consolidated’ Football
Team, will make a tour of the South
during the Christmas. holidays. At
present writing it is not known that
any member of this University will be
on the team. It is quite sure that no
student who has been one of the Uni-
versity Eleven will go on the trip.
Despite the fact that the trip is under
the direction of Mr. Sanford of Water-
bury, a former Yale player, the en-
terprise is strongly opposed by the
regular football leaders and by the
students generally, who feel that any
use of the word “Yale” by any other
than the regularly constituted teams
8 of the University, hurts Yale and in-
jures the cause of legitimate athletics.
These enterprises assume a mercantile
pkase and verge on professionalism,
at least in appearance. Besides that,
the indiscriminate nature of the con-
tests does not help, but hurts, the
game of football. Many people—
probably the majority of the specta-
tors—do not have any other impres-
Sion than that the regular Yale Elev-
en is playing, and the inference is fair,
from the wide extent of. these trips, '
that the business of athletics is being
much overdone at the New Haven in-
stitution. ,
——_4______—.
As the WEEKLY goes to press (Wednes-
day noon) negotiations between Yale
and Harvard remain in an unfinished
condition and there is no ground for any
definite prediction.
